I can't believe we wasted some much time and money doing scientific research on this, when we could have just asked you to begin with! That would have saved us so much time. Before we do any other research on anything, please share with us all of your uninformed opinions!
That would be the 16th century, but not much better I would argue.
1. There are about a million and a half bewildering and contradictory laws that we can't even make sense of. Good luck not getting arrested for doing something you thought was just fine.
2. Women are not property and have equal rights to vote, hold office, and own property. Mind==blown right there. Blacks are not subhuman mud people, and have equal rights. Animals have legal rights too. People can marry members of the same sex in some places, but not others.
3. Alcohol is sort of legal, but with hundreds of weird laws. Most of other drugs are illegal for some reason. We can't explain why.
4. The government has far more power than it did under your monarchy, can see almost everything you do, can arrest you for pretty much no reason, and we voted this government in office willingly.
Just look at elderly people today. They can barely keep up with technology, and they were HERE for it! Many of them are disgustingly racist and sexist by today's standards. They cling to the music, styles, and culture from their youth like it's still 1940. And you think someone born in 1530 would fare better than someone born in 1930?
Imagine someone from the 1500s waking up now. Hey, welcome to the future. All of your morals are horribly outdated, everything you thought you knew about the world is at best laughably incomplete or more likely completely wrong, and the world has changed in every meaningful way. Good luck getting a job, finding a mate, or even crossing the street!
And you may have missed the very next word, "that". It wasn't a direct quote from Napoleon. It was the same word for word paraphrasing and description from the site I linked.
I never heard that before, so I googled "field marshall baton napoleon" and found your first sentence, word for word, on the second link. Quote your sources dude. Don't take credit for someone else's words.
There is a rodent, whose name I forget, that piles up seeds for food and urinates on it. The urine makes sort of a hard amber-like coating, and preserves them remarkably well. Studying the thousands of such seed piles found in various layers in Egypt, the seed content and distribution points to far more trees at the time of the pharaohs, and a remarkable decline in trees as the civilization expanded. There are many trees that were prevalent before we created cities, that are now completely gone.
You can't simply build pyramids, with thousands of slaves eating sand for lunch, in the middle of the desert without natural resources. It required food, wood, etc and in vast quantities.
So it's a coincidence that all ancient civilizations, that tore down trees for thousands of years, are now on the site of deserts? The place called the fertile crescent is now almost completely desert? Just a coincidence? The only desert in North America is where a civilization died out? Just a coincidence? I guess the fact that Easter Island is now completely tree-less after tearing down all its trees to make the Maori statues means nothing to you. Or that in Greenland, when the trees were cut down, all the soil ran out into the ocean, and the settlement died? That's a relief! I thought that maybe our wholesale destruction of forest around the world might impact us in negative ways, but I'm glad it's all just a coincidence! Thanks!
Forgive me for not recapitulating the entire world's history for you. I will, however, focus on just one civilization to make my point. Take Egypt, now a desert. Archaeological evidence points to it being a lush fertile land in the time of the pharaohs. It needed vast amounts of wood, for instance, for burning to cook food, make tools and buildings, for building things like pyramids, etc. Agriculture flourished in places were native vegetation grew. And as cities grew, they cut down an expanding circle of trees until it was no longer possible to transport the necessary supplies the long distance. Without trees, the soil washed away. And now it's desert. As in, in recent times. And shortly after the empire declined.
Same basic thing happened in southwestern US (Anasazi), Mexico (Aztecs), Argentina (Incas), Gobi desert (Chinese empires), and so on. They were all fertile and lush, which led to empires using the natural resources, which led to desert. Now, if you have evidence that these empires were built on, and thrived in, desert, please present it.
Yeah? And your momma's fat! See, I can hurl irrelevant ad hominems too! Wow, this is much easier than citing evidence and forming logical arguments. I should have just started with that. Thanks!
First world consumers, like the U.S. use 17 times the natural resources of developing nations. As you bring the birth rate down slightly and populations in developing nations drastically increase their consumption of natural resources approaching first world levels, we end up in a far worse position. You can't have 1/17th the number of kids you once did. I'm not advocating keeping people in poverty, but we have to realize at some point that we are consuming way more than the earth can produce sustainably.
Population size has always been one of the strongest catalysts for economical and technological progress.
Which has lead to exponential increase in consumption of natural resources, which are finite. Increasing lifespans would similarly lead to more people consuming. How long can keep playing this game?
Let's conveniently forget for the moment that 99% of all species that ever lived are extinct and that ours is in the tail end of average life expectancy. I suppose it's also escaped your attention that the doomsayers have been right, and mankind has in fact met with doom multiple times. There have been many collapses of societies, from Easter Island, to the Greenland settlement, to large civilizations like the Incas. They all consumed their natural resources and collapsed. In fact, every desert in the world is on the site of an ancient civilization, form the Gobi to the Sahara. Mankind turned vibrant forest into desert in a blink of an eye and died. You can read about these collapses of societies in a book called, surprisingly, "Collapse" by Jared Diamond. I don't get off on a dream of global doom; I am saddened by the wholesale destruction of our food, air, and water. I wish it weren't so, but wishing doesn't help. You, on the other hand, seem bound and determined to keep on doing what feels good no matter what. Which one of us is denying reality?
Who watches The Watchmen. By which, of course, I mean who has the DVD of The Watchmen and watches it? I thought it was pretty good myself. The montage during the opening credits was particularly well done.
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I can't believe we wasted some much time and money doing scientific research on this, when we could have just asked you to begin with! That would have saved us so much time. Before we do any other research on anything, please share with us all of your uninformed opinions!
It's a frist psot. It's supposed to be missplleed!
It has been around for approximately forever.
...rounded up to the nearest whole eternity.
But what if you order a DiGiorno frozen pizza from a supermarket, and they deliver it to you? Oh man, I just blew my mind!
Send me the bill. That's totally my fault.
It's a shame the proper use of who vs whom can't.
That would be the 16th century, but not much better I would argue.
1. There are about a million and a half bewildering and contradictory laws that we can't even make sense of. Good luck not getting arrested for doing something you thought was just fine.
2. Women are not property and have equal rights to vote, hold office, and own property. Mind==blown right there. Blacks are not subhuman mud people, and have equal rights. Animals have legal rights too. People can marry members of the same sex in some places, but not others.
3. Alcohol is sort of legal, but with hundreds of weird laws. Most of other drugs are illegal for some reason. We can't explain why.
4. The government has far more power than it did under your monarchy, can see almost everything you do, can arrest you for pretty much no reason, and we voted this government in office willingly.
Just look at elderly people today. They can barely keep up with technology, and they were HERE for it! Many of them are disgustingly racist and sexist by today's standards. They cling to the music, styles, and culture from their youth like it's still 1940. And you think someone born in 1530 would fare better than someone born in 1930?
Imagine someone from the 1500s waking up now. Hey, welcome to the future. All of your morals are horribly outdated, everything you thought you knew about the world is at best laughably incomplete or more likely completely wrong, and the world has changed in every meaningful way. Good luck getting a job, finding a mate, or even crossing the street!
Medical care and insurance and longevity treatment covered for at least 2 years plus anything related to the cryo better be included, though.
And anticipation of feline complications. I don't want anything to happen to Mr. Bigglesworth!
This technology has been used in hoverboards since at least 2015.
That might be helpful advice for a first world nation, but this is Haiti.
I do not spend that much time ting, actually.
You don't say?
I was just being funny. Chill out.
And you may have missed the very next word, "that". It wasn't a direct quote from Napoleon. It was the same word for word paraphrasing and description from the site I linked.
Are you sure I'm not?
I never heard that before, so I googled "field marshall baton napoleon" and found your first sentence, word for word, on the second link. Quote your sources dude. Don't take credit for someone else's words.
There is a rodent, whose name I forget, that piles up seeds for food and urinates on it. The urine makes sort of a hard amber-like coating, and preserves them remarkably well. Studying the thousands of such seed piles found in various layers in Egypt, the seed content and distribution points to far more trees at the time of the pharaohs, and a remarkable decline in trees as the civilization expanded. There are many trees that were prevalent before we created cities, that are now completely gone.
You can't simply build pyramids, with thousands of slaves eating sand for lunch, in the middle of the desert without natural resources. It required food, wood, etc and in vast quantities.
So it's a coincidence that all ancient civilizations, that tore down trees for thousands of years, are now on the site of deserts? The place called the fertile crescent is now almost completely desert? Just a coincidence? The only desert in North America is where a civilization died out? Just a coincidence? I guess the fact that Easter Island is now completely tree-less after tearing down all its trees to make the Maori statues means nothing to you. Or that in Greenland, when the trees were cut down, all the soil ran out into the ocean, and the settlement died? That's a relief! I thought that maybe our wholesale destruction of forest around the world might impact us in negative ways, but I'm glad it's all just a coincidence! Thanks!
Actually, it looks like we're just about fucked, as reported here on slashdot.
Now, if you have a similarly well-researched academic source that says everything is just fine and there's nothing to worry about, please post it.
Forgive me for not recapitulating the entire world's history for you. I will, however, focus on just one civilization to make my point. Take Egypt, now a desert. Archaeological evidence points to it being a lush fertile land in the time of the pharaohs. It needed vast amounts of wood, for instance, for burning to cook food, make tools and buildings, for building things like pyramids, etc. Agriculture flourished in places were native vegetation grew. And as cities grew, they cut down an expanding circle of trees until it was no longer possible to transport the necessary supplies the long distance. Without trees, the soil washed away. And now it's desert. As in, in recent times. And shortly after the empire declined.
Same basic thing happened in southwestern US (Anasazi), Mexico (Aztecs), Argentina (Incas), Gobi desert (Chinese empires), and so on. They were all fertile and lush, which led to empires using the natural resources, which led to desert. Now, if you have evidence that these empires were built on, and thrived in, desert, please present it.
Yeah? And your momma's fat! See, I can hurl irrelevant ad hominems too! Wow, this is much easier than citing evidence and forming logical arguments. I should have just started with that. Thanks!
First world consumers, like the U.S. use 17 times the natural resources of developing nations. As you bring the birth rate down slightly and populations in developing nations drastically increase their consumption of natural resources approaching first world levels, we end up in a far worse position. You can't have 1/17th the number of kids you once did. I'm not advocating keeping people in poverty, but we have to realize at some point that we are consuming way more than the earth can produce sustainably.
Population size has always been one of the strongest catalysts for economical and technological progress.
Which has lead to exponential increase in consumption of natural resources, which are finite. Increasing lifespans would similarly lead to more people consuming. How long can keep playing this game?
Let's conveniently forget for the moment that 99% of all species that ever lived are extinct and that ours is in the tail end of average life expectancy. I suppose it's also escaped your attention that the doomsayers have been right, and mankind has in fact met with doom multiple times. There have been many collapses of societies, from Easter Island, to the Greenland settlement, to large civilizations like the Incas. They all consumed their natural resources and collapsed. In fact, every desert in the world is on the site of an ancient civilization, form the Gobi to the Sahara. Mankind turned vibrant forest into desert in a blink of an eye and died. You can read about these collapses of societies in a book called, surprisingly, "Collapse" by Jared Diamond. I don't get off on a dream of global doom; I am saddened by the wholesale destruction of our food, air, and water. I wish it weren't so, but wishing doesn't help. You, on the other hand, seem bound and determined to keep on doing what feels good no matter what. Which one of us is denying reality?
Who watches The Watchmen. By which, of course, I mean who has the DVD of The Watchmen and watches it? I thought it was pretty good myself. The montage during the opening credits was particularly well done.