He's an idiot for not wanting to flush his life down the toilet? Having kids means MASSIVE unnecessary expenses (current average for middle class families in the US is ~ $250,000 PER KID - and that's NOT including college!) , no more free time, less sleep, a worse relationship (this is well documented by researchers and we even touched on it in Economics classes in college / grad school - for "normal" people who do the "born, go to school, get a job, get married, pop out some brats, slave away until retirement, die" routine have a U shaped curve for their level of happiness - it drops once the first kid is born and doesn't get back to pre-children levels until after the last kid is out of the house and you're retired), etc. Once you factor in the massive overpopulation of the planet as well, there is no rational reason to have kids.
I swear to FSM, if vampires turn out to be real, I'm absolutely finding someone to turn me. I know there's a 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% chance they're not...but I can hope!
True, but most of them also don't want to do the things necessary to NOT be poor (put off enjoying pleasures today for a better quality of life years down the line, work hard in school as a kid so that you can get scholarships and have a good career 10 years later, etc). Everyone's life is a result of the choices that they make. So while they might not want to be poor, their choices have certainly led them there. I say this as someone who grew up poor and had to work full time while taking out a shit ton of loans to get through college and grad school. I spent years working in shitty hourly jobs such as fast food and retail and I can assure you, the lifers there have no desire to put out the effort to achieve anything better - sure, they want the money / nice things of having a better job, but they don't want to put out the effort to obtain that better job.
One program that no one has heard of versus countless anti-male programs with celebrities / billionaires / politicians supporting it and every "news" organization praising it. Yup, totally the same thing.
According to blacks / feminists, that's because putting out effort and working for something is a PRIVILEGE, so you're "privileged" by being discriminated against. Yeah, no one with a functioning brain understands their "logic".
Ah yes, more class-warfare "everyone (but the elite) should be equally poor" bullshit from the toilet paper called the New York Times. This is my surprised face.
"Informal opportunities" meaning "boys actually want to learn about computers and try new things". Don't punish boys for having interests that are different from girls.
Yeah, no. This would be akin to you going to a soup kitchen in a poor black community and saying that no men are allowed inside because only low income women deserve free food.
Just because they occasionally fail at their "job" doesn't mean that they aren't doing it. Hell, even on Fox News they pick their "chosen one" before the primaries and will do everything that they can to ensure that their preferred candidate wins (see how they did everything they could to pretend Ron Paul didn't exist and they're already doing the same thing with Rand Paul).
Exactly. Money doesn't win elections, the media does. They pick the winner and they will make damn sure that all coverage will be as biased as possible to ensure that their chosen candidate wins.
Few things are more American than ignoring bad laws. Hell, that's how this country was founded - by refusing to follow bad laws. Uber / Lyft / other ride-sharing services provide a better service at a better price than taxi companies. Taxi companies could choose to offer better maintained vehicles, more polite drivers, lower fares, etc - but instead they'd rather try and sue their competitors out of business than actually compete.
My assigned free-speech zone is the shooting range. I find that the two compliment each other well and both terrify politicians with dreams of unlimited power.
I don't get why Europe spent so much money and wasted so many lives fighting against dictatorships in the mid-20th century when they just went and established the same goddamn policies in their place. Loki was right, humans (well, the majority) crave oppression and someone else telling them what to do.
BINGO! I HAVE BINGO HERE! I love how as soon as anyone mentions government not ruling with an iron fist, collectivists insist that you should move to / want to live in Somalia with utter chaos. So typical and predictable.
I see you still haven't abandoned the "negative effects of socialism aren't really socialism" response to legitimate criticisms of a bad socio-economic policy.
Modern obesity has nothing to do with diet, exercise, or lifestyle.
Ah, I see we have a Fat Ass - er, Fat Accceptance proponent. Anyone can lose weight by eating fewer calories than they burn, people like you just like to make excuses for why you're too lazy to do it. Also, I was fat myself (just about to cross into obese-land) and I've lose over 25% of my body weight - so yes, I know exactly what it takes to lose weight.
That's not what this is though. If you heard their actual announcement, it's not backwards compatibility. What they're doing is that if you have a 360 physical game, you can redeem it (no details yet on HOW, sounds like you'll put the disc in the Xbone and it'll auto-redeem) a digital copy. So this will only work for 360 games that are on the Xbone's digital store (they're stating around 100 by Christmas).
Really? Because the laws on the books say it's supposed to be a 50/50 split, yet somehow women always walk away with much more than 50% (never mind the fact that they almost always contribute far less than 50% and frequently contribute 0%).
I specifically said "both literally and financially". If a woman drugs and rapes her husband - literally - and he calls the police, they will do absolutely nothing (well, besides laugh at him).
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Don't cave! I got a vasectomy in my 20's and when people get offended after finding out, I tell them "You only get one life - I intend to enjoy mine".
He's an idiot for not wanting to flush his life down the toilet? Having kids means MASSIVE unnecessary expenses (current average for middle class families in the US is ~ $250,000 PER KID - and that's NOT including college!) , no more free time, less sleep, a worse relationship (this is well documented by researchers and we even touched on it in Economics classes in college / grad school - for "normal" people who do the "born, go to school, get a job, get married, pop out some brats, slave away until retirement, die" routine have a U shaped curve for their level of happiness - it drops once the first kid is born and doesn't get back to pre-children levels until after the last kid is out of the house and you're retired), etc. Once you factor in the massive overpopulation of the planet as well, there is no rational reason to have kids.
The number of extremely overweight housewives in the US would disagree with your statement.
I swear to FSM, if vampires turn out to be real, I'm absolutely finding someone to turn me. I know there's a 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% chance they're not...but I can hope!
So, you're saying that they've invented True Blood? Then we should expect to see vampires "coming out of the coffin" in a few years.... I can't wait!
The poor don't WANT to be poor.
True, but most of them also don't want to do the things necessary to NOT be poor (put off enjoying pleasures today for a better quality of life years down the line, work hard in school as a kid so that you can get scholarships and have a good career 10 years later, etc). Everyone's life is a result of the choices that they make. So while they might not want to be poor, their choices have certainly led them there. I say this as someone who grew up poor and had to work full time while taking out a shit ton of loans to get through college and grad school. I spent years working in shitty hourly jobs such as fast food and retail and I can assure you, the lifers there have no desire to put out the effort to achieve anything better - sure, they want the money / nice things of having a better job, but they don't want to put out the effort to obtain that better job.
One program that no one has heard of versus countless anti-male programs with celebrities / billionaires / politicians supporting it and every "news" organization praising it. Yup, totally the same thing.
How would you like to make $1,000 to $5,000 per day?
According to blacks / feminists, that's because putting out effort and working for something is a PRIVILEGE, so you're "privileged" by being discriminated against. Yeah, no one with a functioning brain understands their "logic".
Ah yes, more class-warfare "everyone (but the elite) should be equally poor" bullshit from the toilet paper called the New York Times. This is my surprised face.
"Informal opportunities" meaning "boys actually want to learn about computers and try new things". Don't punish boys for having interests that are different from girls.
Yeah, no. This would be akin to you going to a soup kitchen in a poor black community and saying that no men are allowed inside because only low income women deserve free food.
TIL expecting to not be discriminated against because of your gender is "insanity".
As a gamer, I absolutely want Windows 10 for DirectX12. I'm curious, other than the usual "I'm afraid of change", why do you not want Windows 10?
Just because they occasionally fail at their "job" doesn't mean that they aren't doing it. Hell, even on Fox News they pick their "chosen one" before the primaries and will do everything that they can to ensure that their preferred candidate wins (see how they did everything they could to pretend Ron Paul didn't exist and they're already doing the same thing with Rand Paul).
Exactly. Money doesn't win elections, the media does. They pick the winner and they will make damn sure that all coverage will be as biased as possible to ensure that their chosen candidate wins.
Few things are more American than ignoring bad laws. Hell, that's how this country was founded - by refusing to follow bad laws. Uber / Lyft / other ride-sharing services provide a better service at a better price than taxi companies. Taxi companies could choose to offer better maintained vehicles, more polite drivers, lower fares, etc - but instead they'd rather try and sue their competitors out of business than actually compete.
My assigned free-speech zone is the shooting range. I find that the two compliment each other well and both terrify politicians with dreams of unlimited power.
I don't get why Europe spent so much money and wasted so many lives fighting against dictatorships in the mid-20th century when they just went and established the same goddamn policies in their place. Loki was right, humans (well, the majority) crave oppression and someone else telling them what to do.
None of us want to live in Somalia
BINGO! I HAVE BINGO HERE! I love how as soon as anyone mentions government not ruling with an iron fist, collectivists insist that you should move to / want to live in Somalia with utter chaos. So typical and predictable.
I see you still haven't abandoned the "negative effects of socialism aren't really socialism" response to legitimate criticisms of a bad socio-economic policy.
Modern obesity has nothing to do with diet, exercise, or lifestyle.
Ah, I see we have a Fat Ass - er, Fat Accceptance proponent. Anyone can lose weight by eating fewer calories than they burn, people like you just like to make excuses for why you're too lazy to do it. Also, I was fat myself (just about to cross into obese-land) and I've lose over 25% of my body weight - so yes, I know exactly what it takes to lose weight.
That's not what this is though. If you heard their actual announcement, it's not backwards compatibility. What they're doing is that if you have a 360 physical game, you can redeem it (no details yet on HOW, sounds like you'll put the disc in the Xbone and it'll auto-redeem) a digital copy. So this will only work for 360 games that are on the Xbone's digital store (they're stating around 100 by Christmas).
Really? Because the laws on the books say it's supposed to be a 50/50 split, yet somehow women always walk away with much more than 50% (never mind the fact that they almost always contribute far less than 50% and frequently contribute 0%).
I specifically said "both literally and financially". If a woman drugs and rapes her husband - literally - and he calls the police, they will do absolutely nothing (well, besides laugh at him).