The Peace Prize is hit or miss. I just about gave up on it after they blew one on the worthless UN, but then they sucked me back in a little by giving it to Muhammad Yunus, someone who's actually praiseworthy. (Unlike Barack Obama, who's launched more cruise missiles than all other Nobel Peace Prize winners combined, although I realize that even among the committee that made the decision it was a controversial decision.)
"It's taken more than 6,000 guns off the streets in the last eight years, and this year we are on pace to have the lowest number of murders in recorded history"
The assumption here is that this is (a) all true, and (b) a direct result of this policy.
They also propose being funded through taxes on currency exchange and international airfare, neither of which has come to pass. But they keep trying, because they know they only have to succeed once, whereas those who don't want to live under a world government with teeth have to succeed every time.
As covered here a week ago, opposition to UN control of the Internet is one of the few areas where American politicians agree, and I expect that without them it's DOA.
That's why I said, "There's no way they'd fit into a model where the whole program is $100, though." Mainly I responding to your comment that in an online chemistry course, student's don't actually do any chemistry and pointing out that in the general case that doesn't have to be true.
There are lab kits that student get for distance learning science courses, some of which are surprisingly sophisticated. There's no way they'd fit into a model where the whole program is $100, though.
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Yes, very well put. Fahrenheit 451 was so far ahead of the times it is frightening.
Far ahead when it was written, perhaps. As he himself put it, "I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it."
The lesson I got from that is that if you're going to be a cop, it should be in one of those sleepy towns where the most exciting crime you're likely to have to deal with is public drunkenness.
Okay, that's a fair criticism. Actually, I would be interested to see alternatives that those with other perspectives find to be more neutral -- preferably something reasonably simply, as I think one nice thing about the Nolan Chart is that it's easy to figure out what's different about it.
The main problem here is that political ideology doesn't fit on a left-right spectrum. Anarcho-capitalists might be kinda sorta seen as being on the right, but even then it doesn't fit well. And other shades of anarchist are completely not on the right. The libertarians are the main ones pointing this out, with their Nolan Chart, but one could come up with all sorts of multidimensional models, any of which would be more useful than the one dimension usually seen.
David H. Lawrence XVII, the guy who played the Puppetmaster on Heroes, had a similar problem. His Wikipedia entry explains: "The 'XVII' in his name was a way for Lawrence to distinguish himself from previous David Lawrences already registered with SAG. At the time, he was the 17th David Lawrence listed on IMDB, and appended the number to his name upon his own registry."
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I was referring to 2001, but obviously your point is excellent.
The Peace Prize is hit or miss. I just about gave up on it after they blew one on the worthless UN, but then they sucked me back in a little by giving it to Muhammad Yunus, someone who's actually praiseworthy. (Unlike Barack Obama, who's launched more cruise missiles than all other Nobel Peace Prize winners combined, although I realize that even among the committee that made the decision it was a controversial decision.)
Wait, that's two assumptions. I'll come in again.
Wahhhh, we're halfway there
Wahhhh, livin' on a prayer
Take my hand and we'll make it I swear
Wahhhh, livin' on a prayer
Seems perfectly in line with being an astronaut to me.
...and they'll be right to do so.
"It's taken more than 6,000 guns off the streets in the last eight years, and this year we are on pace to have the lowest number of murders in recorded history"
The assumption here is that this is (a) all true, and (b) a direct result of this policy.
Hmm... "Magliozzi", is that a Sephardic name or an Ashkenazi one?
Kind of sucks when Americans can't even say, "That's it, I'm moving to Canada!"
They also propose being funded through taxes on currency exchange and international airfare, neither of which has come to pass. But they keep trying, because they know they only have to succeed once, whereas those who don't want to live under a world government with teeth have to succeed every time.
As covered here a week ago, opposition to UN control of the Internet is one of the few areas where American politicians agree, and I expect that without them it's DOA.
This assumes an unlikely scenario in which subsidies don't come with government controls that more than undo every economic gain you hoped to make.
That's why I said, "There's no way they'd fit into a model where the whole program is $100, though." Mainly I responding to your comment that in an online chemistry course, student's don't actually do any chemistry and pointing out that in the general case that doesn't have to be true.
You keep saying "ass licking" as though that's the only kind of social interation. That says more about you than it does about society.
There are lab kits that student get for distance learning science courses, some of which are surprisingly sophisticated. There's no way they'd fit into a model where the whole program is $100, though.
Yes, very well put. Fahrenheit 451 was so far ahead of the times it is frightening.
Far ahead when it was written, perhaps. As he himself put it, "I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it."
It's just a sig, you know.
Since the humans of that time
Guess how I know you watch a lot of sci-fi?
The lesson I got from that is that if you're going to be a cop, it should be in one of those sleepy towns where the most exciting crime you're likely to have to deal with is public drunkenness.
or land on a chunk of useless rock, last for a few days eating fish or crabs, then dying a slow horrible death from dehydration and exposure.
Worse -- in Soviet Kiribati, crabs eat you.
Okay, that's a fair criticism. Actually, I would be interested to see alternatives that those with other perspectives find to be more neutral -- preferably something reasonably simply, as I think one nice thing about the Nolan Chart is that it's easy to figure out what's different about it.
Something they share with so-called liberal democracies. Meet the new boss....
Because political power attracts those who want to rule over others just like shit attracts flies.
The main problem here is that political ideology doesn't fit on a left-right spectrum. Anarcho-capitalists might be kinda sorta seen as being on the right, but even then it doesn't fit well. And other shades of anarchist are completely not on the right. The libertarians are the main ones pointing this out, with their Nolan Chart, but one could come up with all sorts of multidimensional models, any of which would be more useful than the one dimension usually seen.
Well, fuck you very much!
Sincerely,
Stephen H. Foerster
David H. Lawrence XVII, the guy who played the Puppetmaster on Heroes, had a similar problem. His Wikipedia entry explains: "The 'XVII' in his name was a way for Lawrence to distinguish himself from previous David Lawrences already registered with SAG. At the time, he was the 17th David Lawrence listed on IMDB, and appended the number to his name upon his own registry."