Americans don't know enough about Philosophy either, which as also quite important to making informed decisions on key issues.
The problem is, people don't know how to think any more, nor do we care to try. We just choose, based on our feelings, whom we want to tell us what to think.
My hypothesis is the Universe popped into existence just last Tuesday with the appearance of having been started by a Big Bang billions of years ago. The backgound radiation is predicted, and lo! there it is!
What makes your Big Bang hypothesis more proven than my Last-Tuesday hypothesis?
So, the impact on the environment is more important than the impact on people, right?
But I thought the reason we were concerned about environmental impact had to do ultimately with the impact on people of an impacted environment?
What is the ultimate reason for "these people" to care whether I power up my Big TV? What is the ultimate reason for not building more power stations?
When the only acceptable option is to "use less energy," I have to wonder: have these people lost sight of why they are concerned, or is it just neo-Ludditism?
>... a $5 "talking book" device that can... provide a steady flow of important information...
Ah, I see the primary use. It's a device that feeds you the dogmatic BS without the inconvenient result of requiring you to learn to read. We wouldn't want you to be able to wander off and read just anything, after all.
> why are stores still offering free bags to people?
Because they would be at a competitive disadvantage if they didn't? If my local supermarket started charging for the bags, I'd probably go shop somewhere else.
It is stupid that water bottles - even sealed ones - have to be ditched before going through security. Thankfully, the TSA had to back down on the baby-bottles-filled-with-milk issue. Be patient, a time is coming when liquids will once again be allowed.
That's when TSA'll start stopping all the traffic getting onto the interstate to check and make sure you aren't carrying more than a quart of liquids in your vehicle.
Why does anybody have to be selected for special scrutiny? Why isn't running your bags through the X-Ray machine and walking through the metal detector good enough?
The Catholic church isn't storing their treasure on earth where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. They've got an extra-large one of these babies!
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Americans don't know enough about Philosophy either, which as also quite important to making informed decisions on key issues.
The problem is, people don't know how to think any more, nor do we care to try. We just choose, based on our feelings, whom we want to tell us what to think.
My hypothesis is the Universe popped into existence just last Tuesday with the appearance of having been started by a Big Bang billions of years ago. The backgound radiation is predicted, and lo! there it is!
What makes your Big Bang hypothesis more proven than my Last-Tuesday hypothesis?
> The big bang and an expanding universe is ...
> not "just a theory", but rather an explanation
A mere hypothesesis, in other words?
So, the impact on the environment is more important than the impact on people, right?
But I thought the reason we were concerned about environmental impact had to do ultimately with the impact on people of an impacted environment?
What is the ultimate reason for "these people" to care whether I power up my Big TV? What is the ultimate reason for not building more power stations?
When the only acceptable option is to "use less energy," I have to wonder: have these people lost sight of why they are concerned, or is it just neo-Ludditism?
It'll disappear even faster if you leave it outside, marked "$10". You have to go inside though.
Your current refrigerator has compressible refrigerant in it.
Which will destroy the world if it somehow leaks out.
And YOU will be responsible.
But do we really want to invest in a technology that decreases the entropy of the only Universe we have to live in?
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
> ... a $5 "talking book" device that can ... provide a steady flow of important information ...
Ah, I see the primary use.
It's a device that feeds you the dogmatic BS without the inconvenient result of requiring you to learn to read. We wouldn't want you to be able to wander off and read just anything, after all.
A talking book is somehow supposed to help improve literacy?
How about a book that forces you to learn to read if you want to know it's contents?
> why are stores still offering free bags to people?
Because they would be at a competitive disadvantage if they didn't?
If my local supermarket started charging for the bags, I'd probably go shop somewhere else.
Stop the stealing of a shit?
Well if they don't, that's YOUR problem.
We HAVE to have safety from terr'ists.
It is stupid that water bottles - even sealed ones - have to be ditched before going through security.
Thankfully, the TSA had to back down on the baby-bottles-filled-with-milk issue.
Be patient, a time is coming when liquids will once again be allowed.
That's when TSA'll start stopping all the traffic getting onto the interstate to check and make sure you aren't carrying more than a quart of liquids in your vehicle.
Why does anybody have to be selected for special scrutiny?
Why isn't running your bags through the X-Ray machine and walking through the metal detector good enough?
For identification purposes, the fact that your ID is expired should be irrelevant, regardless of how long it has been expired.
You don't become a different person just because your ID expired.
> ... they want to know who is the best at that ribbon twirling thing.
Dervish Whirling is now an Olympic Sport?
Caller number 7?
Is this some sort of reference to an ancient form of entertainment?
(I think it might be called, "radio.")
> ... which thives on artificial rarity...
Please clarify: Did you mean "thrives" or "thieves."
It's not entirely clear to me which you meant.
Now, how do we get them concert tickets for free?
> The first Puritan settlement was built literally on
> top of a native village after the settlers had
> killed the entire village.
Really. Is that what is being taught in public schools these days?
Could you please cite some references to support this?
The Catholic church isn't storing their treasure on earth where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.
They've got an extra-large one of these babies!
Surely EULAs are even less enforceable than signed contracts?
> : Solar radiation hits Methane (CH4), splitting it into (CH3+H),
> which quickly recombines into Ethane (C2H6)
OK smartypants, so where did the methane come from?
Or is it turtles all the way down?