I'm honestly unsure what the truth is regarding climate change, there's too much shouting and I just don't have the background for it. But I do know that if you categorically reject any challenge to your position then you're no scientist.
The universe only seems left handed. If it ever gets into a sword fight with another universe, it will wait for a dramatically opportune time and then announce, "I am not left handed!"
(You'll know this has happened when suddenly you are inside-out.)
The kind of advertisement that does affect me, if you can call it that, is word-of-mouth advertisement. Specifically, if you make a good product, and people give it consistently good reviews, I'm more likely to buy your product. If you make a s**tty product that falls apart in six months, I'm more likely to call up a manufacturer in China and go into business against you (which isn't very likely to happen at all, but is still a heck of a lot more likely than me buying your junk product).
I'm not sure a Chinese manufacturer is where I'd go if my goal were to produce a high quality product rather than an inexpensive one.
(Your post was interesting, BTW, that just sort of stuck out.)
Perhaps it would help if I explain why I think so. Both Mormonism and Islam start with Christianity, but think that a later prophet came along with a new revelation that significantly changed things. Mormons believe that God was once a man like us, and that similarly humans who follow the rules closely enough can become gods. Muslims, meanwhile, believe that Jesus was merely a prophet, not an earth-bound instance of God, but other than that, much of what Christians believe about Jesus Muslims also believe.
I think the bit that "as we are, God once was, as God is, we may become" is further from the Christian mainstream than "Jesus was merely a prophet". Thus, I said what I said.
You're more than welcome to disagree; after all I don't believe any of these stories are true anyway. But even if you do, even if your disagreement is well reasoned, I don't think it makes what I said "horrendously ignorant".
Most of our students graduate, and of those most find decent jobs in their fields. I don't know about their debt since that's none of my business, but our tuition rates aren't unreasonable.
Sorry to disappoint you if you were looking for some sort of smoking gun or whatever. College still mostly works, and there are mostly still jobs out there. Yes, I realize it's possible to wildly overpay for college and end up with stupid debt, and that not every major leads to a high paying job. But such is life.
Unless you were an Iroquois. Then your towns were burned to the ground by George Washington's troops because your people supported the British. And plenty of Canadians trace their ancestry to American loyalists who fled their homes to avoid potentially fatal persecution.
All that said, yes, it was still a lot better than France.
Frankly, I see several of the candidates promising to reduce government spending and I only see a few that are wearing religion on their sleeves. Romney is not one of them - in fact, any time he is asked about his religion he side steps the question.
He's running for the GOP nomination and he's not Christian. It's no surprise he doesn't want to talk about it.
Yes, I know many Mormons say they're Christian, but their theology is further from mainstream Christianity than Islam's is, so I don't count them. And I'm neither Mormon nor Christian so it's not like it affects me, I'm just calling it like I see it.
I think Ross Perot could have won in 1992 if he hadn't withdrawn from the race and then reentered. At the height of his popularity he was outpolling both Clinton and Bush.
If you count the underemployed then you're comparing apples and oranges. The problem with the Great Depression wasn't that you might have to go work at Best Buy or at a call center or whatever, it was that there wasn't a job available at any level for five hundred miles in any direction.
Anyone with a firm grasp of the obvious knew that Qwikster idea was a loser and then their tone-deaf PR rep comes out and calls their prices increases a "couple of lattes" at a time when unemployment is running at over 9 percent. How does that idiot still have a job?
Maybe that was aimed at the 91% of workers who therefore do have a job. The economy could be better, sure, but this isn't exactly the Great Depression.
Very insightful. Also, people like me don't necessarily want to watch a particular show right now, when I do watch TV I usually just want to watch something interesting in a particular genre. Netflix's streaming selection is perfectly fine for the latter.
I didn't know Steve Jobs was Buddhist. That seriously improves his image a lot, as Buddhism is the only religion that can be taken seriously and isn't about judging and killing other people in the name of some imaginary person. Buddha himself has lived and told people to think things with their own brains instead of following some stupid book.
I don't think that's far off the mark for Buddhism, but it's a better description of Jainism or Wicca.
I am not a Ron Paul supporter. But I agree that he hasn't always gotten the media attention that he deserves. Actually coverage of primary season is pretty crappy all around, with self-fulfilling statements about who is a serious candidate constantly being made and going unexamined.
This is exactly why when I got the email I shrugged and deleted it. Life is too short to spend precious time worrying about dumb shit like this. In fact, I will now cease commenting on it and go back to downing mimosas.
My reasons to dislike them are their silly one-click patent, that they caved to politicians by dumping Wikileaks, and that they treat their workers like crap. I recognize other people may not care about these issues and like them fine, or conversely may dislike them for other reasons.
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I'm honestly unsure what the truth is regarding climate change, there's too much shouting and I just don't have the background for it. But I do know that if you categorically reject any challenge to your position then you're no scientist.
The universe only seems left handed. If it ever gets into a sword fight with another universe, it will wait for a dramatically opportune time and then announce, "I am not left handed!" (You'll know this has happened when suddenly you are inside-out.)
Two words: Chuck Norris.
Nonsense. Apple invented the home computer, GUI, mp3 player, smartphone, tablet computer, and now voice recognition. Everyone knows that!
Fair enough, and thanks for the informative response -- this isn't my area of expertise at all, but it's interesting.
The kind of advertisement that does affect me, if you can call it that, is word-of-mouth advertisement. Specifically, if you make a good product, and people give it consistently good reviews, I'm more likely to buy your product. If you make a s**tty product that falls apart in six months, I'm more likely to call up a manufacturer in China and go into business against you (which isn't very likely to happen at all, but is still a heck of a lot more likely than me buying your junk product).
I'm not sure a Chinese manufacturer is where I'd go if my goal were to produce a high quality product rather than an inexpensive one.
(Your post was interesting, BTW, that just sort of stuck out.)
Yes, NSA, where they do electronic, communications, and computer intelligence processing. And only that.
That's what they want you to think....
Perhaps it would help if I explain why I think so. Both Mormonism and Islam start with Christianity, but think that a later prophet came along with a new revelation that significantly changed things. Mormons believe that God was once a man like us, and that similarly humans who follow the rules closely enough can become gods. Muslims, meanwhile, believe that Jesus was merely a prophet, not an earth-bound instance of God, but other than that, much of what Christians believe about Jesus Muslims also believe.
I think the bit that "as we are, God once was, as God is, we may become" is further from the Christian mainstream than "Jesus was merely a prophet". Thus, I said what I said.
You're more than welcome to disagree; after all I don't believe any of these stories are true anyway. But even if you do, even if your disagreement is well reasoned, I don't think it makes what I said "horrendously ignorant".
Most of our students graduate, and of those most find decent jobs in their fields. I don't know about their debt since that's none of my business, but our tuition rates aren't unreasonable.
Sorry to disappoint you if you were looking for some sort of smoking gun or whatever. College still mostly works, and there are mostly still jobs out there. Yes, I realize it's possible to wildly overpay for college and end up with stupid debt, and that not every major leads to a high paying job. But such is life.
Unless you were an Iroquois. Then your towns were burned to the ground by George Washington's troops because your people supported the British. And plenty of Canadians trace their ancestry to American loyalists who fled their homes to avoid potentially fatal persecution.
All that said, yes, it was still a lot better than France.
Frankly, I see several of the candidates promising to reduce government spending and I only see a few that are wearing religion on their sleeves. Romney is not one of them - in fact, any time he is asked about his religion he side steps the question.
He's running for the GOP nomination and he's not Christian. It's no surprise he doesn't want to talk about it. Yes, I know many Mormons say they're Christian, but their theology is further from mainstream Christianity than Islam's is, so I don't count them. And I'm neither Mormon nor Christian so it's not like it affects me, I'm just calling it like I see it.
Libertarians are willfully ignorant of reality, history, and pretty much everything.
Rhetoric much? I mean, can't you disagree with them without saying something that ridiculous?
I think Ross Perot could have won in 1992 if he hadn't withdrawn from the race and then reentered. At the height of his popularity he was outpolling both Clinton and Bush.
Well, okay, but I was more thinking that it qualified as not being "about judging and killing other people in the name of some imaginary person". :-)
The U.S., where I work for a university that helps its graduates find jobs. You?
If you count the underemployed then you're comparing apples and oranges. The problem with the Great Depression wasn't that you might have to go work at Best Buy or at a call center or whatever, it was that there wasn't a job available at any level for five hundred miles in any direction.
Anyone with a firm grasp of the obvious knew that Qwikster idea was a loser and then their tone-deaf PR rep comes out and calls their prices increases a "couple of lattes" at a time when unemployment is running at over 9 percent. How does that idiot still have a job?
Maybe that was aimed at the 91% of workers who therefore do have a job. The economy could be better, sure, but this isn't exactly the Great Depression.
Very insightful. Also, people like me don't necessarily want to watch a particular show right now, when I do watch TV I usually just want to watch something interesting in a particular genre. Netflix's streaming selection is perfectly fine for the latter.
I didn't know Steve Jobs was Buddhist. That seriously improves his image a lot, as Buddhism is the only religion that can be taken seriously and isn't about judging and killing other people in the name of some imaginary person. Buddha himself has lived and told people to think things with their own brains instead of following some stupid book.
I don't think that's far off the mark for Buddhism, but it's a better description of Jainism or Wicca.
I am not a Ron Paul supporter. But I agree that he hasn't always gotten the media attention that he deserves. Actually coverage of primary season is pretty crappy all around, with self-fulfilling statements about who is a serious candidate constantly being made and going unexamined.
Cue birth certificate and instructions on making Tinfoil hats.
Now, now, this is why I referred to "politicians" and not "Obama". Republicans are just as bad.
It's called "lying". You can tell when politicians are doing it because their lips are moving.
This is exactly why when I got the email I shrugged and deleted it. Life is too short to spend precious time worrying about dumb shit like this. In fact, I will now cease commenting on it and go back to downing mimosas.
My reasons to dislike them are their silly one-click patent, that they caved to politicians by dumping Wikileaks, and that they treat their workers like crap. I recognize other people may not care about these issues and like them fine, or conversely may dislike them for other reasons.