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Okay, I checked out that link. All that that shows is that he used an organization credit card to make purchases that should not be charged to the organization. Unless their accounting department blindly approves and pays these CC statements (which I doubt), this is not an issue. He would have to file expense reports and receive reimbursements from the organization. Unless they can produce the expense report where he charged these to the organization and shows that their accounting department reimbursed him, this is not a story.

It is his name on that CC and he has to pay the bill. Anyone with a company CC knows that. And lots of people put personal charges on their company CC for the miles/hotel points/etc… These charges don’t get reimbursed by the company or organization.

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Okay, I checked out that link. All that that shows is that he used an organization credit card to make purchases that should not be charged to the organization. Unless their accounting department blindly approves and pays these CC statements (which I doubt), this is not an issue. He would have to file expense reports and receive reimbursements from the organization. Unless they can produce the expense report where he charged these to the organization and shows that their accounting department reimbursed him, this is not a story.

It is his name on that CC and he has to pay the bill. Anyone with a company CC knows that. And lots of people put personal charges on their company CC for the miles/hotel points/etc… These charges don’t get reimbursed by the company or organization.

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Hahaha that is soooo true. Both are naive idealistic visions of the way things should be. And both disregard the basic human tendencies to lie, cheat, and steal…

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Hahaha that is soooo true. Both are naive idealistic visions of the way things should be. And both disregard the basic human tendencies to lie, cheat, and steal…

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Hahaha that is soooo true. Both are naive idealistic visions of the way things should be. And both disregard the basic human tendencies to lie, cheat, and steal…

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Hahaha that is soooo true. Both are naive idealistic visions of the way things should be. And both disregard the basic human tendencies to lie, cheat, and steal…

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Hahaha that is soooo true. Both are naive idealistic visions of the way things should be. And both disregard the basic human tendencies to lie, cheat, and steal…

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In the United States from about 1777 until either 1890 (Sherman Anti-trust Act) or 1913 (Federal Reserve Act), depending on your point of view. For white men only, of course.

That last qualification renders your point moot. No system based on slavery and racism can be called libertarian. The very word is based on “liberty” and slaves didn’t get to enjoy any of it. Neither did the native peoples that we kicked off the land and exterminated. Anyway, not to say the US is all bad (it isn’t) or that everything we’ve done is wrong (it hasn’t been) but our country has never been libertarian.

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In the United States from about 1777 until either 1890 (Sherman Anti-trust Act) or 1913 (Federal Reserve Act), depending on your point of view. For white men only, of course.

That last qualification renders your point moot. No system based on slavery and racism can be called libertarian. The very word is based on “liberty” and slaves didn’t get to enjoy any of it. Neither did the native peoples that we kicked off the land and exterminated. Anyway, not to say the US is all bad (it isn’t) or that everything we’ve done is wrong (it hasn’t been) but our country has never been libertarian.

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In the United States from about 1777 until either 1890 (Sherman Anti-trust Act) or 1913 (Federal Reserve Act), depending on your point of view. For white men only, of course.

That last qualification renders your point moot. No system based on slavery and racism can be called libertarian. The very word is based on “liberty” and slaves didn’t get to enjoy any of it. Neither did the native peoples that we kicked off the land and exterminated. Anyway, not to say the US is all bad (it isn’t) or that everything we’ve done is wrong (it hasn’t been) but our country has never been libertarian.

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In the United States from about 1777 until either 1890 (Sherman Anti-trust Act) or 1913 (Federal Reserve Act), depending on your point of view. For white men only, of course.

That last qualification renders your point moot. No system based on slavery and racism can be called libertarian. The very word is based on “liberty” and slaves didn’t get to enjoy any of it. Neither did the native peoples that we kicked off the land and exterminated. Anyway, not to say the US is all bad (it isn’t) or that everything we’ve done is wrong (it hasn’t been) but our country has never been libertarian.

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In the United States from about 1777 until either 1890 (Sherman Anti-trust Act) or 1913 (Federal Reserve Act), depending on your point of view. For white men only, of course.

That last qualification renders your point moot. No system based on slavery and racism can be called libertarian. The very word is based on “liberty” and slaves didn’t get to enjoy any of it. Neither did the native peoples that we kicked off the land and exterminated. Anyway, not to say the US is all bad (it isn’t) or that everything we’ve done is wrong (it hasn’t been) but our country has never been libertarian.

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All I know is that we can’t even modify software without introducing bugs. And software runs on machines that humans themselves designed! For any machine on the planet there are people that understand it completely. 100%.

With genetic engineering, we are in essence modifying software. The big difference is that the “machine” the software runs on is either the product of tens of millions of years of evolution or God (take your pick, it doesn’t really matter here) and NO ONE understands completely how it works. Yes we know the basic structure of DNA, yes we know how it is used to produce proteins in the cell, and we are learning more every day. However our knowledge is far from complete.

And the way that new genes into are introduced into organisms with GM technology is very crude. There is no telling what other genes are coming along for the ride or what their effects might be.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for genetic engineering. I just think it should be done the way our ancestors have been doing it for oh, the last 10,000 years or so. Selective breeding allows the biological “machines” to work the way they’re designed, and genes get combined through the miracle of sexual reproduction, not the crude blast of a gene gun. Without good old fashioned genetic engineering via selective breeding, none of our modern foods or domesticated animal breeds would exist. Of course selective breeding can’t be patented and it works slowly, so it is of no use to Big Ag.

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All I know is that we can’t even modify software without introducing bugs. And software runs on machines that humans themselves designed! For any machine on the planet there are people that understand it completely. 100%.

With genetic engineering, we are in essence modifying software. The big difference is that the “machine” the software runs on is either the product of tens of millions of years of evolution or God (take your pick, it doesn’t really matter here) and NO ONE understands completely how it works. Yes we know the basic structure of DNA, yes we know how it is used to produce proteins in the cell, and we are learning more every day. However our knowledge is far from complete.

And the way that new genes into are introduced into organisms with GM technology is very crude. There is no telling what other genes are coming along for the ride or what their effects might be.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for genetic engineering. I just think it should be done the way our ancestors have been doing it for oh, the last 10,000 years or so. Selective breeding allows the biological “machines” to work the way they’re designed, and genes get combined through the miracle of sexual reproduction, not the crude blast of a gene gun. Without good old fashioned genetic engineering via selective breeding, none of our modern foods or domesticated animal breeds would exist. Of course selective breeding can’t be patented and it works slowly, so it is of no use to Big Ag.

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All I know is that we can’t even modify software without introducing bugs. And software runs on machines that humans themselves designed! For any machine on the planet there are people that understand it completely. 100%.

With genetic engineering, we are in essence modifying software. The big difference is that the “machine” the software runs on is either the product of tens of millions of years of evolution or God (take your pick, it doesn’t really matter here) and NO ONE understands completely how it works. Yes we know the basic structure of DNA, yes we know how it is used to produce proteins in the cell, and we are learning more every day. However our knowledge is far from complete.

And the way that new genes into are introduced into organisms with GM technology is very crude. There is no telling what other genes are coming along for the ride or what their effects might be.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for genetic engineering. I just think it should be done the way our ancestors have been doing it for oh, the last 10,000 years or so. Selective breeding allows the biological “machines” to work the way they’re designed, and genes get combined through the miracle of sexual reproduction, not the crude blast of a gene gun. Without good old fashioned genetic engineering via selective breeding, none of our modern foods or domesticated animal breeds would exist. Of course selective breeding can’t be patented and it works slowly, so it is of no use to Big Ag.

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