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  - Consulting engineering
    - Engineers often spend 2 days trying to do what they think will save a contractor 2 hours
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      - Companies should pay me a lot of money
        
        I have changed jobs too much
        
        Its not my fault that I got laid-off from my first 2 jobs out of college
        
        It is good to have an EE PE
        
        Mike is weird
        
        Mike worked as a 3D draftsman
        
        Myclob is not confident enough to be a good leader
        
        An employee has to try to read his or her boss
        
        Myclob asks too many questions at work
        
        There is no such thing as a stupid question
        
        Myclob is well rounded
        
        Myclob spends too much time on the internet
        
        It is better to spend time on the internet than watching TV
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Computers & Internet
- Combination of a journal and a calendar
- Combine prediction markets, collective intelligence, artificial intelligence and online debate
Education
- Education makes people better
- Education Reform
- Free Market
- Prestigious schools should grade on a curve to stop grade inflation
- Suggestion box in every class
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- Teachers
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- We shouldn't pay teachers more if they don't start doing better in school
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  - Avatar stereotypes US military personnel
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  - Atlas Shrugged
  - Fountainhead
    - Fountainhead makes valid arguments that big government is bad
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  - A Call For Reasons to agree and disagree
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    - Between economic groups
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  - Financial gain
    - Financial gain is not a bad motivation
  - Groupism
    - Groupism is not a valid interest
    - Racism
      - Racism is not a valid interest
  - Liberal guilt
    - Liberal guilt is not a valid interest
  - Moral clarity
    - The desire for moral clarity is not a valid interest
  - Party Affiliation Groupism
  - Political laziness and issue crossover
  - Self delusion
  - The desire to believe that people will are basically good
    - The desire to believe that people will are basically good is bad
  - The desire to be seen as unique is not a valid interest
  - Valid Interest
  - You shouldn't support something because of your own psychological need
  - You should only support things if they have reasons to support them
- Interest Validity
- It is geeky to analyze issues with this much detail
  - Going into too much detail, may cause you to focus on the important details
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- R2AA: Reasons to agree with reasons to agree
- R2AD: Reasons to agree with reasons that disagree
- R2D: Reasons to disagree
- R2DA: Reasons to disagree with reasons to agree
- R2DD: Reasons to disagree with reasons to disagree
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  - We have to start putting reasons to agree & disagree with things on the same page
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  - Every song makes some kind of point
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  - Respect
    - There are potential problems with overvaluing respect
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- Webpages as reasons to agree or disagree
Government
- America should just be a good republic, and not try to be an empire
- Departments should never be told their budgets will be based on last years budget
- Forms of government
  - Communism is bad
    - "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" is a good idea
  - We should use the advantages of a Technocracy
- Government departments need pressure to keep their budgets small
- Law
  - Immigration and Naturalization
    - The USA should prioritize immigration from societies that value women's rights, free press, democracy, and rule of law
  - We should make government fines proportional to how much money you make
- Military
  - Congress should declare war
  - We should not be involved in foreign wars without an official Declaration of war by congress
- No people can maintain freedom unless their political institutions are founded upon the existence of moral law
- There are many things we can do to make government agencies feel patriotic for spending their money well
  - Telling our government employees the consequences of acting irresponsible will help them act for the greater good
- U.S. Government
  - Departments & Agencies
    - DHS
      - Keeping Americans Safe
        
        We should spend at lest 4% of GDB on defense
    - DOD
      - We should combine the 3 branches of the military
  - Judicial Branch
    - A judicial system that dismisses evidence that can be proven, is not just
    - Supreme Court
      - Court Decisions
        
        Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
        
        Being read your Miranda rights is good because an innocent person will be reminded to get their facts straight before they start talking
        
        Miranda rights are stupid
        
        Many guilty people have avoided application of their lawful punishment because of Miranda rights
- We should stop the practice of setting next years budget, by what was spent last year
Health
- Cost should should be a factor when it comes to medicaid
- Drugs
  - We should legalize drugs for 2 years, to put illegal drug dealers out of business
- Insurance companies are not too powerful
- It is dumb to tie our healthcare benefits to our employer
- Pay doctors by health of their patients
- Publican healthcare makes your lifestyle my business
- The government should help track how well doctors did in school and on their medical exams
- We have to ration healthcare
  - People who disagree have misplaced compassion
- We need health care reform
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- Terrorism
News & Media
- The line between investigating and persecuting is a very fine one
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- Sporting events between players with different beliefs
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- Aeronautics and Aerospace
  - We should send a container container lichens, moss, and other oxygen producing plants to mars
- Animals
  - It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to 50 words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese
    - Carl Sagan was an idiot
- Biology
  - Bioethics
- Environment & Nature
- We, as a society, either do not understand or accept evolution
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- Economics
- Food and Drink
  - Drinking is stupid
- Issues and causes
  - UBS whistleblower Bradley Birkenfeld deserves statue on Wall Street, not prison sentence
Society & Culture
- Crime
- Families
  - People should spend less time with their hobbies and more time with their families
- People
- Politics
- Relationships
  - Friends
    - You should try to find the best friends you can
- Religion
- Sexuality
  - If we allow gays to marry, what is to stop polygamy
  - Politics of Sexuality
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