Oh yea, and drop that whole "all the planets orbiting one sun" nonsense since it isn't workable. Miranda would have been frozen ice-ball _or_ the "inner planets" would be molten slag.
It was their way dealing with the issue of no FTL travel. And a rather good one at that. Partly terraformed planets led to the many barren landscapes they visited, and they could get to another planet/moon within a reasonable amount of time (ie, before they run out of food and water).
I hope that as the bacteria glows, it arranges itself into numbers indicating how many mines are nearby. It should making identifying the mined locations a simple matter of elimination.
Sheesh, how long are people in your restaurant? You're not going to catch cancer from an hour long dinner at a smoke-filled establishment. You'd have to be in there a very significant amount of time to damage your lungs. Besides, if you were a restaurant owner, you can say up front, "This is a smoking establishment." As long as you aren't taking customers in at gunpoint and forcing them to stay in the smoke, it's not your problem.
Even in the case of food, though, the value is determined by people's want/need, not anything inherent in the object itself. To a starving man, food is likely more important than anything in the world to him. Therefore, the value is much higher than gold. On the other hand, your typical first worlder could probably skip a meal with no real issues. It is a much lower value to him. A suicidal man may even find food worthless.
Gold has emerged over thousands of years a good medium of exchange due to many people wanting something they could trade easily for other goods. Gold fit the bill. It may happen that we find another object in the future that meets people's demands for money even better than gold, in which case we would probably see the price of gold go way down and this other element increase in price until it found a relatively stable value compared to the people's demand for it.
I'm trying to buy gold, too, but it has no "inherent" value. No object in the world has inherent value, just the subjective values due to people's wants.
Gold has historically functioned very well as money, is fairly rare (though common enough that anyone could get a bit), and is durable. It is not easily counterfeited either. Thus, people assign a great deal of value to it as a medium of exchange or something to store value.
It's not because we all believe it is magical or something, it's because it has emerged over time as the best available option for money. That's the market process at work.
Did you ask every last Japanese? Every man, woman, and child who died there? Again, in my view, even one death of someone who was against the attacks/war on the US was a criminal offense. I find it hard to believe every last civilian there was united behind the attacks started by their government.
I admit I had never heard of this before, so I did a quick search. From the first sentence: The Nanking massacre "was a genocidal war crime committed by the Japanese military in Nanjing (Nanking)" (emphasis mine).
Tell me again how nuking thousands of civilians is justified here?
How many of those civilians supported that decision? In my view, if even one of those thousands of civilians was against attacking the US, the bombing was not worth it.
I have no problem with defense. If someone attacks, by all means fight back. But when you retaliate a sneak attack on a military base with an attack that causes more than 100x as many deaths, many of them civilians, then you've overstepped your right. That's a criminal act.
Yeah! Come on NASA, buy a new spaceship! Stop being selfish and stimulate the shrinking spaceship industry! Do you know how many workers you're hurting buy not buying new stuff?!
Who are you to decide someone else's values? Sure, eating meat may not matter to you or me, in fact I quite like it, but that doesn't give either of us the right to claim they can't voice their opinions.
1. No more withholding. Everyone has to pay their full taxes to the IRS by check or plastic.
This is good, if only to make it feel more like the robbery it is. Withholding the money makes it feel better. On a side note, it would be amusing to see how many people had spent so much that they didn't have the money at the time it is demanded without withholding.
2. Change the tax due date from April 15th to the first Monday in November.
So we can procrastinate 6 more months? Or what other reasoning did you have here?
Pretty sure the Democrats are behind that one along with Republicans. They all want the same thing: a way to end the recession without actually cutting down on anything. An impossible goal, and the means they use to attempt it are going to hurt everyone even more.
The "once they are poor thing", you wanted to tax them at "near 100%" rates. I guarantee when you take, for example, 95-100% of someone's money, they will quickly find themselves with very little money.
And how is taking money that someone earned right? Since when does the government own everything I do? You have been brainwashed if you truly believe they should be allowed to take whatever they choose from you.
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Oh yea, and drop that whole "all the planets orbiting one sun" nonsense since it isn't workable. Miranda would have been frozen ice-ball _or_ the "inner planets" would be molten slag.
It was their way dealing with the issue of no FTL travel. And a rather good one at that. Partly terraformed planets led to the many barren landscapes they visited, and they could get to another planet/moon within a reasonable amount of time (ie, before they run out of food and water).
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I hope that as the bacteria glows, it arranges itself into numbers indicating how many mines are nearby. It should making identifying the mined locations a simple matter of elimination.
On a similar note, I just rolled through a stop sign to do my part in saving the environment.
Sheesh, how long are people in your restaurant? You're not going to catch cancer from an hour long dinner at a smoke-filled establishment. You'd have to be in there a very significant amount of time to damage your lungs. Besides, if you were a restaurant owner, you can say up front, "This is a smoking establishment." As long as you aren't taking customers in at gunpoint and forcing them to stay in the smoke, it's not your problem.
Even in the case of food, though, the value is determined by people's want/need, not anything inherent in the object itself. To a starving man, food is likely more important than anything in the world to him. Therefore, the value is much higher than gold. On the other hand, your typical first worlder could probably skip a meal with no real issues. It is a much lower value to him. A suicidal man may even find food worthless.
Gold has emerged over thousands of years a good medium of exchange due to many people wanting something they could trade easily for other goods. Gold fit the bill. It may happen that we find another object in the future that meets people's demands for money even better than gold, in which case we would probably see the price of gold go way down and this other element increase in price until it found a relatively stable value compared to the people's demand for it.
I'm trying to buy gold, too, but it has no "inherent" value. No object in the world has inherent value, just the subjective values due to people's wants. Gold has historically functioned very well as money, is fairly rare (though common enough that anyone could get a bit), and is durable. It is not easily counterfeited either. Thus, people assign a great deal of value to it as a medium of exchange or something to store value. It's not because we all believe it is magical or something, it's because it has emerged over time as the best available option for money. That's the market process at work.
Thanks. Although I will argue the attack was unwarranted no matter what, you are correct in that my original point was that Japan is not Germany.
Did you ask every last Japanese? Every man, woman, and child who died there? Again, in my view, even one death of someone who was against the attacks/war on the US was a criminal offense. I find it hard to believe every last civilian there was united behind the attacks started by their government.
I admit I had never heard of this before, so I did a quick search. From the first sentence: The Nanking massacre "was a genocidal war crime committed by the Japanese military in Nanjing (Nanking)" (emphasis mine).
Tell me again how nuking thousands of civilians is justified here?
How many of those civilians supported that decision? In my view, if even one of those thousands of civilians was against attacking the US, the bombing was not worth it.
I have no problem with defense. If someone attacks, by all means fight back. But when you retaliate a sneak attack on a military base with an attack that causes more than 100x as many deaths, many of them civilians, then you've overstepped your right. That's a criminal act.
How does nuking thousands of Japanese civilians un-nazi the world?
Also, I'm pretty* sure it wasn't a Trident missile that was used.
*100%
Yeah! Come on NASA, buy a new spaceship! Stop being selfish and stimulate the shrinking spaceship industry! Do you know how many workers you're hurting buy not buying new stuff?!
Thinkgeek actually makes a passport holder that blocks RFID signals. http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/security/910f/
Who are you to decide someone else's values? Sure, eating meat may not matter to you or me, in fact I quite like it, but that doesn't give either of us the right to claim they can't voice their opinions.
You need to close your Windows. That's how the bugs are getting in the house.
1. No more withholding. Everyone has to pay their full taxes to the IRS by check or plastic.
This is good, if only to make it feel more like the robbery it is. Withholding the money makes it feel better. On a side note, it would be amusing to see how many people had spent so much that they didn't have the money at the time it is demanded without withholding.
2. Change the tax due date from April 15th to the first Monday in November.
So we can procrastinate 6 more months? Or what other reasoning did you have here?
I like this idea. Can't get a tax much flatter than 0%!
Pretty sure the Democrats are behind that one along with Republicans. They all want the same thing: a way to end the recession without actually cutting down on anything. An impossible goal, and the means they use to attempt it are going to hurt everyone even more.
Just look at paris hilton! What did the 'infamous' sex tape do to her? Shot her popularity through the roof!
I really hope we don't end up with a similar video featuring Oprah.
Wouldn't it be more like "sudo get me a beer"?
That's IPv4.
Wouldn't people just sneak in to see it rather than pay?
The "once they are poor thing", you wanted to tax them at "near 100%" rates. I guarantee when you take, for example, 95-100% of someone's money, they will quickly find themselves with very little money. And how is taking money that someone earned right? Since when does the government own everything I do? You have been brainwashed if you truly believe they should be allowed to take whatever they choose from you.
So every person with a few million dollars or more got it by enslaving the Chinese? Gotcha. Well, I guess that's okay to take their money then.