Funny, study history and you will see that declines last painfully long...everything will still be livable when you die, probably much worse, but liveable. Society is like a complex organism...it can weather a lot of bad health an continue living through tons of adversity. Many of us would like to see then end of a rotting society but the truth is that it will flounder on for many more generations. Maybe the spread of information will harry in a quick death or transformation...who knows. Get some popcorn, and change yourself.
I can vouch for this from my recent three year stint in education--working intimately with faculty, staff, and students, and being a student myself. This story summary is VERY accurate....well, accurate, I guess you are either accurate or inaccurate. Anyway, the real issue is that the administration of each college knows who butters their bread...state government. There is a chancellor and vice chancellor who both report to the governor. This is the real leadership. True, college administration is a pile of sniveling incompetents, but it isn't really their fault. Great systems make average people great, bad systems make average people suck. We are witnessing a bad system, don't blame the people. We all work together to fashion the system...and we have to be willing to admit when it doesn't work properly and kill/replace the damn thing...NOW. The trouble is, the system has been following our typical politically based timeline...creeping, slovenly decline to death--thousands, millions of people watching "helplessly" as the system (government) sucks the life, will, and ambition until all that is left is a dry, decayed husk. Hyperbole? Yes, and NO!
Those are wonderful insights nut guns cost money. Income adjusted, how many dollars of disposable income are available to each citizen in all of those countries? Does that ratio correlate to the amount of guns owned per segment of each population?
If an American has $1000 of disposable income per year and a Serbian only has $100 of disposable income per year (adjusted for currency valuation to living expenses) I would say the Serbians own WAY more guns than Americans becasue given an increase in disposable income they would surely trade in more firearms for the same given population. This is just one factor to look at. I'm tired of this simplistic tripe...nothing is black and white.
Highly doubt that. Maybe thousands...but there is no significant portion of the population that naturally wants to engage in this behavior. People just want to be left alone. Even if there were no justice system to regulate such behavior there is still many deterrents. The first one beingthat most people just want to be left alone.
and the electrical properties of the giza complex as well? It has already been postulated that the pyramids were flooded in order to pressurize the stone, causing it to pulse.
Truly annoying. Why phase it in and why exclude smaller businesses? Just dump it on the market...prices will adjust...and everyone can be on their way.
So therefor those civilizations must be using some other technology.
My vote is smoke signals...or that weird thing that octopi do. The most likely possibility of communication is one which most people do no consider. Quantum mental communication--remote viewing. Perhaps some of us have been doing it for a long time now without really quantifying it?
Why 50 to 100 years for something with a likelihood stretched over millions of years and further potentially complicated by other civilizations with millions of years head start? I doubt any civilization would last that long without getting fucked up by a cosmic natural disaster, but...
taxonomy is dead as species are no longer classified that way. It is a hobby now. No scientist is going to waste their time sketching birds when the work is meaningless.
If I had my choice between Secretary of State or the Presidency I would choose Secretary of State. Tons of influence, nearly untouchable by the president after being appointed, and a highly functional position unencumbered by the bulk of politics inflicted on the President.
XP is a dog. Limited to 32 bit in a useable form, and certainly not ideal for gaming. Windows 7 provides a great platform for modern gaming but I can see how you would need XP for legacy games. I have run multiple XP instances under Windows 7 in VirtualBox and had no problems...in fact less problems than running it on bare metal.
You can request any and all pay information by the way. I remember a request from the local newspaper for all of the people and pay rates for those over $60k--it was all published in the paper. Talk about a stir--most of those people were "stomping" mad. It was a good thing though.
Fact: all of that belongs to the public. I, and many others, have requested these very bits of information from universities and have received them very quickly. I have been inside a college when FOIA (Sunshine) requests have been made, and although they were extremely pissed off (the reason we need Sunshine laws) they had to cough up the data. I have requested an received administrative "stuff" and meeting arrangements from a major university here in Ohio and I have received them--it is all sitting on a CD in my bookshelf. Found some juicy stuff in that data.
Even though colleges, and any government entity for that matter, are all extremely secretive (with the attitude that their business is their business) they are now bound by a specific law requiring them to expose all data when it is requested. When I worked at the college the Attorney General trained us on the FOIA. I asked the AG what we should do if someone requested the email addresses of every student--he said, "give it to them."
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Funny, study history and you will see that declines last painfully long...everything will still be livable when you die, probably much worse, but liveable. Society is like a complex organism...it can weather a lot of bad health an continue living through tons of adversity. Many of us would like to see then end of a rotting society but the truth is that it will flounder on for many more generations. Maybe the spread of information will harry in a quick death or transformation...who knows. Get some popcorn, and change yourself.
I can vouch for this from my recent three year stint in education--working intimately with faculty, staff, and students, and being a student myself. This story summary is VERY accurate....well, accurate, I guess you are either accurate or inaccurate. Anyway, the real issue is that the administration of each college knows who butters their bread...state government. There is a chancellor and vice chancellor who both report to the governor. This is the real leadership. True, college administration is a pile of sniveling incompetents, but it isn't really their fault. Great systems make average people great, bad systems make average people suck. We are witnessing a bad system, don't blame the people. We all work together to fashion the system...and we have to be willing to admit when it doesn't work properly and kill/replace the damn thing...NOW. The trouble is, the system has been following our typical politically based timeline...creeping, slovenly decline to death--thousands, millions of people watching "helplessly" as the system (government) sucks the life, will, and ambition until all that is left is a dry, decayed husk. Hyperbole? Yes, and NO!
All they can do is kill you...just like any other human being. Well, torture.....shut up!
depolarizing...I like it
I think I heard Brat spent $150k and Cantor spent $100 million. Tea Party is the best thing to happen in politics since any of us have been alive.
Those are wonderful insights nut guns cost money. Income adjusted, how many dollars of disposable income are available to each citizen in all of those countries? Does that ratio correlate to the amount of guns owned per segment of each population?
If an American has $1000 of disposable income per year and a Serbian only has $100 of disposable income per year (adjusted for currency valuation to living expenses) I would say the Serbians own WAY more guns than Americans becasue given an increase in disposable income they would surely trade in more firearms for the same given population. This is just one factor to look at. I'm tired of this simplistic tripe...nothing is black and white.
It is common for merchants to give discounts for cash however.
Highly doubt that. Maybe thousands...but there is no significant portion of the population that naturally wants to engage in this behavior. People just want to be left alone. Even if there were no justice system to regulate such behavior there is still many deterrents. The first one beingthat most people just want to be left alone.
and the electrical properties of the giza complex as well? It has already been postulated that the pyramids were flooded in order to pressurize the stone, causing it to pulse.
Just the Big Mac or all prices for every menu item by that proportion?
Truly annoying. Why phase it in and why exclude smaller businesses? Just dump it on the market...prices will adjust...and everyone can be on their way.
Surely, if they are willing to pay 48 billion they would pay 100 billion.
Same thing happened with the Etruscans. They used the Greek alphabet but we do not know what any of the words mean.
So therefor those civilizations must be using some other technology.
My vote is smoke signals...or that weird thing that octopi do. The most likely possibility of communication is one which most people do no consider. Quantum mental communication--remote viewing. Perhaps some of us have been doing it for a long time now without really quantifying it?
Why 50 to 100 years for something with a likelihood stretched over millions of years and further potentially complicated by other civilizations with millions of years head start? I doubt any civilization would last that long without getting fucked up by a cosmic natural disaster, but...
taxonomy is dead as species are no longer classified that way. It is a hobby now. No scientist is going to waste their time sketching birds when the work is meaningless.
spitting is assault
If I had my choice between Secretary of State or the Presidency I would choose Secretary of State. Tons of influence, nearly untouchable by the president after being appointed, and a highly functional position unencumbered by the bulk of politics inflicted on the President.
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So goes the determination of every following age. Relax, it all works out in the end.
XP is a dog. Limited to 32 bit in a useable form, and certainly not ideal for gaming. Windows 7 provides a great platform for modern gaming but I can see how you would need XP for legacy games. I have run multiple XP instances under Windows 7 in VirtualBox and had no problems...in fact less problems than running it on bare metal.
Yes...that is the whole point. You miss the intent of the America experiment.
You can request any and all pay information by the way. I remember a request from the local newspaper for all of the people and pay rates for those over $60k--it was all published in the paper. Talk about a stir--most of those people were "stomping" mad. It was a good thing though.
Fact: all of that belongs to the public. I, and many others, have requested these very bits of information from universities and have received them very quickly. I have been inside a college when FOIA (Sunshine) requests have been made, and although they were extremely pissed off (the reason we need Sunshine laws) they had to cough up the data. I have requested an received administrative "stuff" and meeting arrangements from a major university here in Ohio and I have received them--it is all sitting on a CD in my bookshelf. Found some juicy stuff in that data.
Even though colleges, and any government entity for that matter, are all extremely secretive (with the attitude that their business is their business) they are now bound by a specific law requiring them to expose all data when it is requested. When I worked at the college the Attorney General trained us on the FOIA. I asked the AG what we should do if someone requested the email addresses of every student--he said, "give it to them."
No. If I were president I would lay myself at the feet of my people...and be duly executed.
Nope...he is a public Kenyan, militant, coward, communist, and the wet dream of every Washington "Democrat." Get your facts straight.