I think this is very innovative and I hope it will work. I love the fact that it's completely symmetric but most of all, it's open! How many gaming and especially non-gaming possibilities does this open? This is the perfect device to control a drone.
True that. We all agree we have a huge problem, but we don't seem to have any way of solving it.
What I think could work, but with lots of efforts and time, is to take back politics from below. Take part in your local politics, where you as an individual can make a difference: run, support a better candidate or just keep a close eye on what your representatives are doing. Start cleaning up there: this will make your fellow citizens feel more empowered and will hinder the careers of dishonest politicians wannabes.
I wonder if it would be possible to set up a town-sized liquid democracy, for example.
If you're a foreigner being spied on by the NSA, take it up with your own government. If YOUR government won't protect you from OUR government, consider getting a new government.
True that, but just don't scream TRAITORS! next time France doesn't join you in a war. You can't have it both ways. Most EU countries are your NATO allies.
Also, we are as able to get a new government as you are.
The New Testament teaches that it is just and merciful and righteous (because it's God's design*) that those who do not share belief in Jesus Christ will be tortured for eternity.
* This is the same God that (in the Old Testament) orders the genocide of the Canaanites.
Also, you don't have monopoly of the interpretation of the Bible. Yes, yes I know, YOU are different and YOU choose the correct book and the correct interpretation, unlike everybody else. But this is what I hear from ALL religious people, violent or not.
None said they stayed to fight. Maybe they just have families to take responsibilities of. Maybe not everybody can just snap fingers and move away from their only home and the only place they have known for all their lives.
Or maybe you are just creating militants where there were none.
You make some good points, but what we evolved for and how we live now are two very different things. A diet that makes you mature fast, reproduce at 14 and die at 40 is good for the specie, but not what most modern individuals would want.
As an occasional meat eater, I see hard-line vegans that look surprisingly healthy (AFAIK you just need B12 supplements every now and then).
It is anecdotal evidence, but I am developing the impression that more and more business (in this case, higher education) is catering to the rich, because there is where is the actual money.
This is frightening, because it means that numbers are no more enough to offset poverty.
So you insult me for not knowing any language, mock me for knowing too many languages, brag about being able to write in French, and then insult me because I don't know French. Mmmh...
Extremely vague generalizations about 500 million people, backed only by your own subjective judgement. Saying I don't use my brain because I ask to support of the generalization above. Extremely poor assumptions on my linguistic capabilities. Calling me ignorant because I don't get a poor metaphor of yours. Speaking in a language I don't understand for no apparent reason other than bragging. Resorting to insult rather than rational argument or evidence.
You don't care about making yourself clear to others, just about proving your own superiority to yourself, often by diminishing others.
I have been siwoti for too long. I think I am done with your ego trip.
Hint: "ignorance" and "not understanding phayes' ideas" are two different things. Also, why are you writing at all in a language I understand little of?
Bwhahahahhah. What a moron. I am fascinated about how people concerned with others not using their brains seem to jump the shark the most.
I am Italian, I speak Swedish, Greek, Spanish, German and English (sometimes). Your clever assumption is spot on, man! =D Not that your over generalization didn't give you away. (No, I don't live in EU any more because the economy went down the drain.)
I believe you refer to the "US bigger polluter *PRO-CAPITA*". It is still compatible with the statement that "EU, as a whole, is the biggest economy". The latter statement surprises me but I don't follow this kind of numbers.
Uh, and regarding your signature. Your "freedom" is an insanely armed wolf feasting on the lambs while telling the well-armed sheep where to aim.
Your president has the right to kill you. Banks and corporations own you and decide who is the enemy The day to rise in arms to defend your "freedom" has long passed. But you are still looking at the horizon with your big gun, waiting for the day you will get to shoot the BIG EVIL and feel a Real Man, while on your back your "freedom" has been reduced to a joke already, and I am not speaking about the right to bear arms.
It usually is, at least in Eu. It has the advantage to be falsifiable, and hence a proper scientific theory, and the disadvantage that is has been falsified.
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I think this is very innovative and I hope it will work.
I love the fact that it's completely symmetric but most of all, it's open!
How many gaming and especially non-gaming possibilities does this open?
This is the perfect device to control a drone.
But plenty of people are suggesting that weapons should be widely available, which in turns makes it easier for kids to illegally obtain them.
Do you have solid proof that Santa Claus (or unicorns) do not exist?
Do you believe in Santa Claus (or in unicorns)?
There is an infinity of entities that can be imagined.
Do you have solid proof that none exist?
True that.
We all agree we have a huge problem, but we don't seem to have any way of solving it.
What I think could work, but with lots of efforts and time, is to take back politics from below.
Take part in your local politics, where you as an individual can make a difference: run, support a better candidate or just keep a close eye on what your representatives are doing.
Start cleaning up there: this will make your fellow citizens feel more empowered and will hinder the careers of dishonest politicians wannabes.
I wonder if it would be possible to set up a town-sized liquid democracy, for example.
If everyone agrees with you, there isn't much to be said.
Everyone is already fighting it with what they've got.
Still, my hat to you sir.
If you're a foreigner being spied on by the NSA, take it up with your own government. If YOUR government won't protect you from OUR government, consider getting a new government.
True that, but just don't scream TRAITORS! next time France doesn't join you in a war.
You can't have it both ways.
Most EU countries are your NATO allies.
Also, we are as able to get a new government as you are.
TFA mentions clearly that the algae is NOT toxic, in fact people happily swim in it.
You voted them in.
You tolerate their behavior against your interest.
Don't get me wrong, things are the same in EU.
But the responsibility lies with We The People.
The New Testament teaches that it is just and merciful and righteous (because it's God's design*) that those who do not share belief in Jesus Christ will be tortured for eternity.
* This is the same God that (in the Old Testament) orders the genocide of the Canaanites.
Also, you don't have monopoly of the interpretation of the Bible.
Yes, yes I know, YOU are different and YOU choose the correct book and the correct interpretation, unlike everybody else.
But this is what I hear from ALL religious people, violent or not.
"Devout faith" my ass. It's just politics and the propaganda you get.
Most of these fanatics drop their cherished faith at the first bribe.
None said they stayed to fight.
Maybe they just have families to take responsibilities of.
Maybe not everybody can just snap fingers and move away from their only home and the only place they have known for all their lives.
Or maybe you are just creating militants where there were none.
Because he's fighting TEH SYSTEM!
Kinda.
You make some good points, but what we evolved for and how we live now are two very different things.
A diet that makes you mature fast, reproduce at 14 and die at 40 is good for the specie, but not what most modern individuals would want.
As an occasional meat eater, I see hard-line vegans that look surprisingly healthy (AFAIK you just need B12 supplements every now and then).
More than the production we lose, is the environment we consume, the pollution we create.
You'd be surprised about how many Muslim have no problems with alcohol and do NOT pray 5 times per day.
If customs change, religion will follow.
It is anecdotal evidence, but I am developing the impression that more and more business (in this case, higher education) is catering to the rich, because there is where is the actual money.
This is frightening, because it means that numbers are no more enough to offset poverty.
This.
Power is a positive feedback.
Those in power are in a better position to gain more power and more privileges.
ALSO, AFAIK, cars are regulated, insured and you need a licence.
32 years and never once I felt the need to have a gun to defend myself.
I do wonder what kind of violent place the US is.
So you can disprove a God that is omniscient, omnipotent and omni-benevolent?
So you insult me for not knowing any language, mock me for knowing too many languages, brag about being able to write in French, and then insult me because I don't know French.
Mmmh...
Extremely vague generalizations about 500 million people, backed only by your own subjective judgement.
Saying I don't use my brain because I ask to support of the generalization above.
Extremely poor assumptions on my linguistic capabilities.
Calling me ignorant because I don't get a poor metaphor of yours.
Speaking in a language I don't understand for no apparent reason other than bragging.
Resorting to insult rather than rational argument or evidence.
You don't care about making yourself clear to others, just about proving your own superiority to yourself, often by diminishing others.
I have been siwoti for too long.
I think I am done with your ego trip.
Hint: "ignorance" and "not understanding phayes' ideas" are two different things.
Also, why are you writing at all in a language I understand little of?
Bwhahahahhah.
What a moron.
I am fascinated about how people concerned with others not using their brains seem to jump the shark the most.
I am Italian, I speak Swedish, Greek, Spanish, German and English (sometimes).
Your clever assumption is spot on, man! =D
Not that your over generalization didn't give you away.
(No, I don't live in EU any more because the economy went down the drain.)
I believe you refer to the "US bigger polluter *PRO-CAPITA*".
It is still compatible with the statement that "EU, as a whole, is the biggest economy".
The latter statement surprises me but I don't follow this kind of numbers.
Uh, and regarding your signature.
Your "freedom" is an insanely armed wolf feasting on the lambs while telling the well-armed sheep where to aim.
Your president has the right to kill you. Banks and corporations own you and decide who is the enemy
The day to rise in arms to defend your "freedom" has long passed.
But you are still looking at the horizon with your big gun, waiting for the day you will get to shoot the BIG EVIL and feel a Real Man, while on your back your "freedom" has been reduced to a joke already, and I am not speaking about the right to bear arms.
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It usually is, at least in Eu.
It has the advantage to be falsifiable, and hence a proper scientific theory, and the disadvantage that is has been falsified.