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    Callan's Graphics and Things

    I wonder if you'd ever see some of those internets ever networked together - if someone wanted to connect to (eg) the Chinese/Japanese one from California, they might just run a separate browser application using the right protocols. That or people would run and manage gateway servers to access...
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    Callan's Graphics and Things

    I suspect it would also delay the ubiquity of the computer, given the main way Minitel was accessed was through terminals - eventually the price of the computer is going to go down enough and people are gonna develop Minitel browsers, but if people already have a Minitel terminal lying around...
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    Callan's Graphics and Things

    Alternate Internet schemes are always fun - obviously a more successful Minitel is the go-to in that regard, but one thing I’ve wanted to see is it evolving out of Hypercard stacks, with somebody inventing a protocol to share them over the Internet. Something which easily could have existed, but...
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    Who would be the King of Poland in 1918?

    My assumption was that they’d either make it a state in personal union with Saxony, or select some other Wettin, for those historical reasons - although practically it’d be under German occupation and, given Germany’s plans to cleanse the population of the Border Strip, enormously unpopular.
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    Indicus's maps, wikiboxes, &c thread

    Yes I was inspired by that, looking for alternate ways for tensions with China to blow up. I imagined the treaty would have that and the opening of treaty ports for Portuguese use. European geopolitics are a fair bit different here - a surviving French First Republic is my ultimate POD after...
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    Indicus's maps, wikiboxes, &c thread

    China fights a war with Portugal over a territorial dispute over Macau’s border from 1849 to 1852, which ends with it getting owned and suing for peace. The resulting treaty isn’t quite as much as the First Opium War, but it is a little more humiliating to get defeated by a third-rate European...
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    WI: FDR Managed To Expand The Supreme Court?

    I had a long reply written but you know what - you've distorted my arguments here: I've explained why taxes do not make everyone lose equally, and I've explained why taxes pick winners and losers, in the very thing you are replying to. Instead of arguing against the logic I laid out, you've...
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    WI: FDR Managed To Expand The Supreme Court?

    I am glad you are asking me about something I said, rather than something I did not say. Taxes change the prices of goods - they fundamentally affect the curves of supply and demand. A price on goods does so obviously; if the maximum amount I am willing to spend on a good is $5, and for a good...
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    WI: FDR Managed To Expand The Supreme Court?

    Suppose I should have said “untrue” rather than “dishonest”; the latter provided a value judgement which I did not mean and provoked you into a tone of aggression. But perhaps I spoke too soon, seeing as further down in your reply you, quite literally, invert the meaning of my argument. My take...
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    WI: FDR Managed To Expand The Supreme Court?

    I shall get to the rest in a minute, but just one thing. No I did not. I suggested it would be absurd to expect taxes to not, to some level pick winners and losers of the economy, because the only possible way to avoid that happening, would be to determine some arithmetic formula which would...
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    WI: FDR Managed To Expand The Supreme Court?

    @Wendell , this has become a case of quote-spaghetti, as perhaps is the inevitable state of any forum argument that has gone on for too long. I shall, for that reason, group together like quotes from different parts together, in an effort to neatify this argument. I hope you will not consider...
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    WI: FDR Managed To Expand The Supreme Court?

    You are engaged in bad-faith argumentation here. I apologize if I did anything to earn this tone of enmity from you, but regardless I must dispute this. You made it sound as if the court struck down an executive order and Roosevelt did some Charles I shit in response; I merely specified that the...
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    WI: FDR Managed To Expand The Supreme Court?

    The 1866 court packing plan went beyond removing just one Supreme Court justice, indeed it removed two and would’ve removed three but by then Johnson was out of office so Congress did not see the need. I am very confused as to where I claimed that “Congress can never do any wrong...
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    WI: FDR Managed To Expand The Supreme Court?

    This is a very dishonest framing - the issue was that the court was legislating from above through dubious interpretations of the Constitution, against the will of Congress which, after all, is assigned the duty of legislation. I will also note that you are using the word "multiple" because...
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    Scenes We'd Like To See: Alternate Movies, Television & Other Pop Culture Miscellanea

    You’ve repeatedly said stuff like this, endorsing imperialism and expressing nostalgia for a time before human rights messed it up; I would respect you a lot more if you had the boldness to include some justification.
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