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I know that modern US conservatism is ideologically similar to 1700s liberals. But can anyone cite a case of a modern person, in English, describing as a liberal what I would call a conservative, or identifying themselves as liberal when espousing ideas that would be considered conservative in the US? I hear it said all the time that liberal means something else outside of the US, but when I hear people talk about UK, Canadian, and Australian politics (the other examples of English speaking politics that I am familiar with), they use the terms "liberal" and "conservative" in ways that are familiar to me. I've never actually heard the terms used to mean something else. Can someone cite so

I've never hallucinated before but I want to. I currently don't have access to anything that can't be obtained over the counter. I've tried some of the methods that involve being still for a long time (such as meditation), and I will try them again; but they are difficult for me because I have ADHD. Lucid dreaming is also difficult for me. I realize I am making a lot of excuses, and I am willing to try again, harder, on one of these methods. My question is simply, which of the many methods would be the best use of my effort?

Let's assume for a moment that we had a golden opportunity to replace the US's FPTP/electoral college system with a direct vote using an alternate method. There are many various systems proposed, each with advantages and disadvantages. Which system should we prefer?

I'd like to make the case for approval voting. Its a very simple tweak to the existing system: instead of only being allowed to vote for one candidate, a vote would be allowed to vote for as many candidates as she pleases. This allows the voter to support third parties while still participating in the main two-party election. There is no new, complicated math to be understood and it has about the same advantages and disadvant

Below every comment, RES adds a "source" option among the existing options like "permalink" and "parent". This is fine, but there is a slight delay as the javascript processes, causing source to be added about half a second after the page is done loading. When you have to climb from parent to parent in a thread, this delay is really annoying. A simple solution would be move "source" to the end of its particular line.

The comparator is great addition to minecraft, but producing complicated redstone circuits is still the devils work. I'd like to suggest one last addition that I think would make finally make redstone logic straightforward.

The latch would be similar to the comparator. Visually it would have four torches rather than three. It would be crafted by combining a repeater and a comparator. It would have an input, an output, and a side input. The side input would disable the latch. It has four different modes, each producing a different effect:

1. Change Detector

Produces a single tick redstone pulse when the redstone signal strength changes. So changes from 14 to 13, or 13 to 14, or

Barbara, 39, has three children. He eldest, Sam, now turning 16, has gotten his first drivers license. For his birthday, his Uncle Bill has given him an old beater to drive around. Barb wants Sam to help run errands like buying groceries, so she gives him as a birthday gift, a credit card.

Now, Barb is a very strict parent, and she wants to make sure that he does not overspend. To that end, she gives him a very strict budget. She tells him to spend this much on food for himself, this much on clothing, this much on school supplies, etc. She also tells him to buy groceries for the family and some other things they need, as well as a few personal items for herself. She promises to pay

Yes, quite.

So in the budget fight, there were several dollar amounts thrown out: $2.2T, $1.6T, $1.2T, $800B, $600B, etc. I thought that these were yearly amounts, and given the size of our budget, making changes on the $100B+ annual level seems reasonable. But then I read that it these numbers all refer to the amount saved over ten years. This is very upsetting to me. Why does congress fight over and threaten our economy for less than a twentieth of our total budget? But what's worse, our media doesn't make it clear that we are talking about $60-220 billion a year, not $600B-2.2T a year-- a big difference. Why doesn't the media simply do the division for us?

To start, this isn't about Pluto's status as a planet. My question is why an object can be called a dwarf planet and not be a planet. That seems like a bad categorization system.

I can't tell if this is IAU's intention or if its just how it interpreted by the popular press. Why can't we say that Pluto, Ceres and Eris are planets, just not major planets? Conversely, why not just call the category something else, like "planetary-mass objects"?

There has been a few good discussions on this forum about the issue of technological unemployment, the idea that robots and other technologies will put millions of people out of work and force radical economic change. To date, the only specific plan I have seen to address the issue, besides simply expecting the free market to fix it for us, is to tax heavily and redistribute the wealth. I would like to propose an alternative.

Most companies and corporations in the United States use a system called "stock". Each "share" of stock represents a tiny percentage of the ownership of the company. Even if a company has not "gone public", that is, not chosen to sell stock on the open market, stoc