Newsrogue.com http://newsrogue.com Newsrogue.com Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:06:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 en A false debate: voluntary vs coercion http://newsrogue.com/2008/07/28/a-false-debate-voluntary-vs-coercion/ http://newsrogue.com/2008/07/28/a-false-debate-voluntary-vs-coercion/#comments Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:28:10 +0000 newsrogue http://newsrogue.com/2008/07/28/a-false-debate-voluntary-vs-coercion/

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A false debate: voluntary vs coercion.
Conservatives like to say “There are only two ways to organize society, coercively, through government, or voluntarily.” They’re pretending we’d “voluntarily” get along without government. Really there’s always going to be force & what matters is electing someone who uses that force wisely.
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97% of drug deaths from legal drugs
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Tobacco

435,000¹

Alcohol & drunk driving

85,000¹

Bad reactions to prescription drugs

32,000¹

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs

7,600¹

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559,600

All illicit drug use, direct and indirect

17,000¹

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That’s %3.03

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Britain’s police chief: CCTV does not cut crime

“Billions of pounds spent on Britain’s 4.2 million closed-circuit television cameras has not had a significant impact on crime, according to the senior police officer.”
–timesonline.co.uk

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List: The world’s best inventions weren’t made for profit
The internet, computer, modern electricity, phones, penicillin, lightbulb (Göbel had it first!), radio & almost everything else through state funding of science & university research.

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Speed Vitrification At Low Temperatures - Public Disclosure To Prevent Patenting

Description: A low-temperature liquid based method of preserving organs, lifeforms, & dead lifeforms…
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A blue state epidemic: Slavery denial
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“We northerners want to believe slavery mostly profited the South. That’s backwards: for over 200 years the North practiced slavery¹, then bankrolled southern slavery², & then sat on those profits for yet another century - with interest - before finally fighting the civil war.”

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Why morons win at economics
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What happens when you get out of school during a recession? This: no one’s had the time to prove who’s better so they’re hired completely randomly. Soon the inept have long job histories & are in charge. (The smart retire or do something with their lives.)

[Continued] ]]> http://newsrogue.com/2007/12/12/why-morons-win-at-economics/feed/ PBS.ORG: “[Doctor] successfully implanted seven patients with bladders grown entirely in a laboratory.” http://newsrogue.com/2007/11/05/pbsorg-doctor-successfully-implanted-seven-patients-with-bladders-grown-entirely-in-a-laboratory/ http://newsrogue.com/2007/11/05/pbsorg-doctor-successfully-implanted-seven-patients-with-bladders-grown-entirely-in-a-laboratory/#comments Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:35:57 +0000 newsrogue http://newsrogue.com/2007/11/05/pbsorg-doctor-successfully-implanted-seven-patients-with-bladders-grown-entirely-in-a-laboratory/
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pbs.org: “a researcher at WFU broke new ground in medical technology when he successfully implanted seven patients with bladders grown entirely in a laboratory.”
— [video]

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Tobacco	435,000¹
Alcohol & drunk driving	85,000¹
Bad reactions to prescription drugs	32,000¹
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs	7,600¹
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	559,600
All illicit drug use, direct and indirect	17,000¹

Culture

97% of drug deaths from legal drugs

Tobacco

435,000¹

Alcohol & drunk driving

85,000¹

Bad reactions to prescription drugs

32,000¹

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs

7,600¹

———

559,600

All illicit drug use, direct and indirect

17,000¹

That’s %3.03

World

Britain’s police chief: CCTV does not cut crime “Billions of pounds spent on Britain’s 4.2 million closed-circuit television cameras has not had a significant impact on crime, according to the senior police officer.” –timesonline.co.uk [Comments]

Culture

List: The world’s best inventions weren’t made for profit The internet, computer, modern electricity, phones, penicillin, lightbulb (Göbel had it first!), radio & almost everything else through state funding of science & university research.

Speed Vitrification At Low Temperatures - Public Disclosure To Prevent Patenting Description: A low-temperature liquid based method of preserving organs, lifeforms, & dead lifeforms…

Culture

A blue state epidemic: Slavery denial

“We northerners want to believe slavery mostly profited the South. That’s backwards: for over 200 years the North practiced slavery¹, then bankrolled southern slavery², & then sat on those profits for yet another century - with interest - before finally fighting the civil war.”[continued]

Culture

Why morons win at economics

What happens when you get out of school during a recession? This: no one’s had the time to prove who’s better so they’re hired completely randomly. Soon the inept have long job histories & are in charge. (The smart retire or do something with their lives.)

pbs.org: “a researcher at WFU broke new ground in medical technology when he successfully implanted seven patients with bladders grown entirely in a laboratory.” — [video]

Britain’s police chief: CCTV does not cut crime

“Billions of pounds spent on Britain’s 4.2 million closed-circuit television cameras has not had a significant impact on crime, according to the senior police officer.”
–timesonline.co.uk

[Comments]

List: The world’s best inventions weren’t made for profit
The internet, computer, modern electricity, phones, penicillin, lightbulb (Göbel had it first!), radio & almost everything else through state funding of science & university research.

Speed Vitrification At Low Temperatures - Public Disclosure To Prevent Patenting

Description: A low-temperature liquid based method of preserving organs, lifeforms, & dead lifeforms…

“We northerners want to believe slavery mostly profited the South. That’s backwards: for over 200 years the North practiced slavery¹, then bankrolled southern slavery², & then sat on those profits for yet another century - with interest - before finally fighting the civil war.”

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pbs.org: “a researcher at WFU broke new ground in medical technology when he successfully implanted seven patients with bladders grown entirely in a laboratory.”
— [video]