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Well, that's somewhat misleading, since you can't "re-run the economy". So, without those tax cuts, it's certainly possible that the deficit could be much worse, if the lack of tax cuts ended up leading to a larger market collapse or something similar. (Note: I'm not saying that is the case...

Bleach and Naruto are basically the same to me. They're not bad, but certainly not good. They're kinda like the McDonalds and Burger King of anime, lol. A lot of people like they, and they're pretty consistent, but there's just not that much meat to them. Fillers, for one, obviously I...

Eh, Naruto/Bleach is the most average and mundane anime around, these days. Milking the cash cow, and that's about it.

As far as I can tell, it looks like being on the black list just means that a company is "non-transparent" by their standards, in that given a list of questions about the company, from publicly available information, none of the questions could be answered either way.

Huh, my company is on there.

Heh, this isn't what I thought this was saying at first. I thought it was saying a TSA person found a cancer cluster in a passenger they were screening with their naked machines, lol.

NST won't be what'll happen, though. It'll either be a dismantling/outsourcing of major functions of the government (Defense, Social Services, Education, etc) or a return of significantly higher tax brackets and tax rates for the higher brackets. NST is a regressive tax that takes a higher...

Uh... National Sales Tax will never be passed, and wouldn't solve the problem. Knowing the players, though, they'll end up with the Democrats agreeing to cut benefits on aid programs a tiny tiny bit, Republicans agreeing to raise taxes on the rich (or at least the middle class) a tiny tiny bit...

The ban on murder doesn't use the bible as a basis, it uses the stability of society as a basis. And I don't see whatsoever what war has to do with cheating and adultery. It was initially put there during the Cold War McCarthy-era, to root out "the evil commies". Because Christians are a...

Can I watch? On a semi-related subject, my old apartments had two washers and two dryers for the entire building. Someone left their laundry in one of the dryers for 2 days straight. I wouldn't have donated their clothes or thrown them away. I was mostly just thinking "You know what would be...

The US has a separation of church and state clause in the US Constitution, so the Bible isn't a valid basis for making laws.

Yeah, sorry for the hijack on my end, too.

Haha, we've been dating for three years now. It's not "stringing her along" if neither of us have any particular desire to get married. :P Our relationship exists right where we both want it to.

Oh, I know. I meant the only reason she'd want to get married is so that we could have a big party and get lots of presents, lol. Other than that, she doesn't care about any of the rest of it.

I wasn't actually bashing religion, I was just pointing out that you can't define who a person is.

Not really.

Many people with privilege preserve their privilege in at least one way by denying that it exists and claiming that oppression doesn't happen among those who don't have that privilege, and tend to get all defensive (and ironically, more oppressive) when they're faced with that. Seems likely...

Uh... what? None of this is making any sense. That's silly. Luckily, the only potential reason my girlfriend would want to get married is cause when you do, you get a massive party where people give you all sorts of free shit just for getting married.

Yeah, for my job, the only time I ever use the phone is for conference calls with people in other offices, everything else is email/IM/face to face meetings. Can't say we've ever had any video conference calls, though, in the past 5 years or so of working for fairly large corporations. But I'd...

Wow, I was flipping through threads and totally misread this initially as "...my Chloroform sets..."