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Does anyone know why commenting in plain text creates these line breaks? | 258 comments | Create New Account
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Does anyone know why commenting in plain text creates these line breaks?
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 04 2013 @ 07:32 PM EDT
I switched from Firefox to Chrome a few months ago, but that may be
coincidental.

I do not believe I have inserted any carriage returns or new lines in the
writing --
by force of habit I never do.

I have no idea why when I read my article it seems to be putting in a double
line
break at the end of the line.

It just looks ugly to me.

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"Should Make a Difference"
Authored by: Gringo_ on Tuesday, June 04 2013 @ 11:25 PM EDT

Current IP law in the United States [is] way overbalanced towards the interests that can afford to patent every idea no matter how inconsequential and use it against the newer entrants.

Concisely sums up the problem. People should adopt that as a signature line. That should be quoted everywhere, until it penetrates the consciousness of the multitudes.

Address that problem head on and defeat it, then sit back and watch innovation take off like a shot out of hell.

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"Should Make a Difference"
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 05 2013 @ 05:00 AM EDT
Our country now 240 years later is still living with these ideals and this constitution. They did a great job the founding "fathers".
The text of the constitution is the same (apart from amendments), but the ideals? By now, it is legal to torture and kill civilians (by now also U.S. citizens on U.S. grounds, for whatever that distinction may be worth), hold them indeterminately without due process, and spy on every citizen, again without due process.

At any rate, due process is only available to the rich. Everybody else has to take what prosecution decides to give them as a plea "bargain", since otherwise the cost of a fair trial defending against a ridiculous amount of charges is financial ruin.

That is, if you manage to look like belonging to a reasonably privileged class and race. Otherwise, you might not even survive what the police does to you.

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"Should Make a Difference"
Authored by: rsteinmetz70112 on Thursday, June 06 2013 @ 11:28 AM EDT
Not all were farmers Gouverneur Morris and John Hancock were among the
wealthiest men in the colonies.

Washington was not a professional military man (although if he had gotten the
British commission he apparently felt he deserved things may have been
different). He considered himself a farmer but he was a farmer on an almost
industrial scale His holdings were divided in to 5 farms. Mount Vernon being
his home which he inherited at 3,000 acres and increased it to 9,200 acres by
plowing profits back into it.

At one point he owned 69,605 acres spread across the states of Kentucky,
Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and (the
future) Washington, D.C.

Jefferson was given 1,000 acres by his father which grew to 5,000 acres when his
father died, this later became Monticello. He inherited 20-40 slaves from his
father. Jefferson also inherited 11,000 acres and 135 slaves from his father in
law.

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Rsteinmetz - IANAL therefore my opinions are illegal.

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