http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:49:16 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:49:16 Who owns the job? How does someone go about taking a job? It sounds like stealing if it's simply taken from the person who owns it. Can somebody take a job without any authorization from anybody?... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Boojatta/418 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:10:42 Imagine tests that nobody is obligated to attempt, that have no age requirements for eligibility to attempt the tests, and that are for official academic credit recognized by state governments.

In no particular order, here are a few possible benefits of such tests:

* They could be used as dia... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Boojatta/419 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:19:28 Alternatively, are the interactions in some cases examples of bullying, with two DU members sometimes ganging up against one?

Consider the following dialog:

Law Enforcement Officer: We had an anonymous tip, a complaint against you.

Innocent Man: I know what you're going to say. I am... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Boojatta/416 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:19:49 A year after he graduated, someone asked him, "If you're so smart, how come you aren't rich?"

He decided to get into shape for a long-distance running contest that offered a big cash prize.

He met some people interested in physical fitness and started training with them. One member of the gro... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Boojatta/413 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:20:34 "Richard" wasn't the name of the monkey, and the person claiming to be disabled wasn't a woman. "Richard" was the name of a man who had a disabling heart condition, and the monkey calmed him, but he was good about not taking the monkey into restaurants. He kept it mostly on a ranch in Texas. Nowa... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Boojatta/412 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:12:57 They all saw the movie "Fight Club" one night, and they thought it was cool.

Seriously though, does [u][b]insurance[/b][/u] management sound like an appropriate career for them? Why not day trading, or lion taming?... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Boojatta/411 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:02:11 By "forfeits its right to exist", do you mean that outsiders should use military force to change the government of Israel or do you mean that all citizens of Israel should be deported from Israel and scattered around the world?... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Boojatta/410 Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:06:15 A religious person [u][b]can[/b][/u] be truly good. However, if you tell that religious person, "You are good", and that religious person happens to be Jesus, then that religious person might reply as follows: "Why do you call me good? No one is good—except God alone."

Let us pray that one day ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Boojatta/414 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:15:38 I'm trying to understand why the Taleban opposes formal education for girls. Are they concerned about the possibility of being poor theocratic managers of the money collected from taxpayers? Are they concerned that females in Afghanistan would put in a lot of time attending school and keeping teac... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Boojatta/409 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:39:53 ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Boojatta/405 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:19:56 Why should farmers have to beg for subsidies while governments of oil-rich countries have simply expropriated the work of geologists, prospectors, engineers, infrastructure builders, etc?

OPEC hasn't always existed, and oil isn't the only important commodity in the world. As time goes by, new ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Boojatta/404 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:19:50 it seems that many self-proclaimed Christian organizations try to persuade people that, by suffering a loss and having some other people gain [b][u]something[/u][/b] from it, you will receive some mystical benefit. The underlying assumption seems to be that interactions for mutual benefit aren't po... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Boojatta/402 Sun, 04 Oct 2009 11:20:42 ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Boojatta/401 Sat, 03 Oct 2009 11:30:45 If the kids understood, then the kids would agree.
You cannot (i.e. must not) agree too much (i.e. at all) with President Obama.
Therefore, kids cannot understand.

Now, we have established the basic lemma: the kids cannot understand. We proceed quickly to the explanation.

Why force kids to ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Boojatta/399 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:44:03 If not, then how do people decide that, among all the books that they could invest money to get translated into English, the ones that they are investing money to get translated into English are the best choices?

If there are such book reviews, then where can I find a lot of them?
... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Boojatta/395 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:23:58 then how do you know in any particular situation whether the person isn't being lazy and is simply so disorganized that it would be a huge project for the person to find some information, or whether the person is simply being lazy?
... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Boojatta/398 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:24:08 If your local mass transit system gives a discount to very young riders and very old riders, then I have a question. Is the discount for young riders based purely on age? For example, if high school graduates aren't entitled to a discount regardless of how young they are, then the policy would see... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Boojatta/397 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:13:05 Also, please name the translator of a good English translation. Sometimes there are significant differences in the quality of different English translations of the same story.

Of course, the question has no objectively correct answer. The answer depends on what kind of reading interests you, bu... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Boojatta/400 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:51:45 Yes, this is an admission of ignorance. Is time and a half simply a conventional benefit, or is it mandated by law?

If it's mandated by law, then it seems that some people might slip through the cracks and not receive the benefits that the law is supposed to provide.

For example, consider the... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Boojatta/389 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:42:26 You may choose to ignore the poll question itself and instead focus on the following meta-question: Is the poll question clear as posed? Alternatively, is it necessary to go beyond conventional usage and identify precisely what concepts of "even" and "odd" are being used? For example, we know that... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Boojatta/387 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:43:50 There is a religious standpoint that denies the existence of free will on the grounds that everything is controlled by God, and God's power squeezes out any possibility for human influence. This is similar to a philosophical position against free will. The philosophical position claims that everyt... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Boojatta/386 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:50:42 You may have seen a so-called "light switch." It's a device used in control rituals. Brainwashed people watch a performance by a light-switch operator who creates the impression of a causal relationship between the state of a light switch (on or off) and the state of a light bulb (luminous or non-... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Boojatta/385 Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:14:15 If one can justify one's answer to the poll question without relying upon a newly minted ad hoc "principle", then one might be able to construct a sound argument using the same principle to obtain some other conclusion. Thus, there need not be any analogizing involved. Some principle posted in thi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Boojatta/383 Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:40:57 There's hope for change in a democracy. Legislation can be changed. In a theocracy controlled by the Taleban, it would first be necessary to have a revolution and/or civil war to remove the theocracy before any positive change is possible.

It's like rescuing women of various East Asian national... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Boojatta/382 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:47:28 ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Boojatta/376 Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:51:46