What's next? Advanced physics teaching that the sun goes around the earth?
Of course. To promote the heliocentric model is racist, because it values the European contributions of Copernicus over the African contributions of Claudius Ptolemy.
So if first impressions matter, developing some standard protocol is kind of shutting the gate after the horse has bolted. Impressions will have been informed on our early TV output. There could well be whole institutions on other worlds tasked with decoding the antics of Tom and Jerry. No wonder they've stayed away.
In the Flash Gordon movie from the '70s, this is how Ming discovered that the Earth had advanced enough to become a threat. There's a scene where he's reviewing scenes of Hitler, from among the earliest TV transmissions, and remarks, "He showed promise!"
Maybe, but so long as you all keep that ridiculous monarchy, however constitutional it might be, those who live in republics are going to keep making fun of you.
Also, because so many guns are in the hands of civilians here, banning them wouldn't work because they're already out there (people aren't going to just turn them in when asked).
Actually, I expect many Americans would turn them in -- starting with the ammunition, one round at a time.
I prefer more of a western European model, with a socially liberal atmosphere and little or no censorship, nude beaches etc, and governments that concern themselves with making sure people have food, housing, good jobs, and health care, and education, rather than obsesssing over imposing arbitrary ideologies on people. As a social libertatian, that is what we believe in and leads to a truly safe society.
But your model of taking most of what people earn in order to pay for this utopia is somehow not ideological? I mean if you want to say your way is better then that's your prerogative, but don't claim you're objective while you're doing it.
People always shit all over Star Trek V, but I really liked it. Many of the episodes of the old show had quirky stories that weren't afraid to achieve that interestingness through a callous disregard for making sense, and so did Star Trek V.
Rereading that, it doesn't sound like praise, but it is.
This isn't flamebait. I teach community college IT courses, and I would agree that if someone's a CS major and has to be dragged into checking out Linux, that person would probably ultimately be happier switching majors.
Know what would be cool? Create a new park in northern Canada and release some mammoths there. They would, of course, need enough forage. But once they begin to thrive, bring back sabor tooth tigers to control the mammoth population.
Cool idea overall, but the sabre-toothed tiger part is unnecessary. The most effective predator of the woolly mammoth is still available.
Erich Fromm wrote an interesting essay that was included as an afterword to some editions of 1984 where he argues that the concept of doublethink can be found just as easily in corporate culture as it can in government. And it's not surprising -- big government, big business, and big media are so incestuous it's often difficult to draw lines of clear distinction among them.
If the criminal police in the U.S. and those in Belarus had a good working relationship, presumably they would just cooperate to exploit their governmental authority to accomplish even more crime.
During the trailer for "Devil", everyone in the audience seemed pretty interested until it said, "An M. Night Shyamalan Film", at which point there were groans and audible "OH NOES".
Yes, but readers don't supply the content that goes into newspapers and magazines. By design, it would be much more difficult for Wikipedia to sell out.
The difference is that the Wikimedia Foundation doesn't make editorial decisions about the content of their resources, the users themselves do. By separating editorial decision making from financial concerns, that conflict of interest would be avoided.
Long ago. In fact we haven't been at peak Freedom in nearly a decade minimum.
I'd contend that "peak freedom" must have occurred before most countries began requiring passports or visas to pass through their borders. This happened surprisingly recently in most cases; e.g. the 1930s for most of Europe, IIRC.
The level of liberty isn't like the price of oil. Depending on who you are, where you are, and which freedoms you value, "peak freedom" could be in a great variety of different variety of times and places, even in the present.
For example, you talk about the time before the '30s. That era may have been peak freedom for white people, but for everyone else it came later. Peak freedom for Venezuelans is definitely sometime before Chavez, but in Chile or Uruguay it may be in the present. If you value freedom in being able to use cannabis, go to the Netherlands. If you value it in not being taxed, go to the Caymans.
You know, unless your goal is to perpetuate the stereotype of Christians as humorless and judgmental, you may want to reconsider the way you respond to irreverent people.
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What's next? Advanced physics teaching that the sun goes around the earth?
Of course. To promote the heliocentric model is racist, because it values the European contributions of Copernicus over the African contributions of Claudius Ptolemy.
-=Steve=-
So if first impressions matter, developing some standard protocol is kind of shutting the gate after the horse has bolted. Impressions will have been informed on our early TV output. There could well be whole institutions on other worlds tasked with decoding the antics of Tom and Jerry. No wonder they've stayed away.
In the Flash Gordon movie from the '70s, this is how Ming discovered that the Earth had advanced enough to become a threat. There's a scene where he's reviewing scenes of Hitler, from among the earliest TV transmissions, and remarks, "He showed promise!"
I hope you get the +5 you deserve here. Rampant over-incarceration is one of the biggest social and political problems in the U.S.
Maybe, but so long as you all keep that ridiculous monarchy, however constitutional it might be, those who live in republics are going to keep making fun of you.
Also, because so many guns are in the hands of civilians here, banning them wouldn't work because they're already out there (people aren't going to just turn them in when asked).
Actually, I expect many Americans would turn them in -- starting with the ammunition, one round at a time.
-=Steve=-
I prefer more of a western European model, with a socially liberal atmosphere and little or no censorship, nude beaches etc, and governments that concern themselves with making sure people have food, housing, good jobs, and health care, and education, rather than obsesssing over imposing arbitrary ideologies on people. As a social libertatian, that is what we believe in and leads to a truly safe society.
But your model of taking most of what people earn in order to pay for this utopia is somehow not ideological? I mean if you want to say your way is better then that's your prerogative, but don't claim you're objective while you're doing it.
Sure, except for the complete absence of women.
People always shit all over Star Trek V, but I really liked it. Many of the episodes of the old show had quirky stories that weren't afraid to achieve that interestingness through a callous disregard for making sense, and so did Star Trek V.
Rereading that, it doesn't sound like praise, but it is.
This isn't flamebait. I teach community college IT courses, and I would agree that if someone's a CS major and has to be dragged into checking out Linux, that person would probably ultimately be happier switching majors.
Know what would be cool? Create a new park in northern Canada and release some mammoths there. They would, of course, need enough forage. But once they begin to thrive, bring back sabor tooth tigers to control the mammoth population.
Cool idea overall, but the sabre-toothed tiger part is unnecessary. The most effective predator of the woolly mammoth is still available.
-=Steve=-
Virgo would seem to have a better claim to being "unused".
You say "Even PayPal" as though it were surprising that PayPal sucks in yet another way.
Aren't the gibberish words assembled from different letters from different unsolved words or something? They didn't talk that funny back then.
Erich Fromm wrote an interesting essay that was included as an afterword to some editions of 1984 where he argues that the concept of doublethink can be found just as easily in corporate culture as it can in government. And it's not surprising -- big government, big business, and big media are so incestuous it's often difficult to draw lines of clear distinction among them.
Is this pic better?
http://www.tvrage.com/person/id-63226/gallery/?view=82232
If the criminal police in the U.S. and those in Belarus had a good working relationship, presumably they would just cooperate to exploit their governmental authority to accomplish even more crime.
This point cannot be made too often. Most supposed democracies are oligarchies ruled by a power elite who use elections as a PR tactic.
During the trailer for "Devil", everyone in the audience seemed pretty interested until it said, "An M. Night Shyamalan Film", at which point there were groans and audible "OH NOES".
Yes, but readers don't supply the content that goes into newspapers and magazines. By design, it would be much more difficult for Wikipedia to sell out.
The difference is that the Wikimedia Foundation doesn't make editorial decisions about the content of their resources, the users themselves do. By separating editorial decision making from financial concerns, that conflict of interest would be avoided.
Long ago. In fact we haven't been at peak Freedom in nearly a decade minimum.
I'd contend that "peak freedom" must have occurred before most countries began requiring passports or visas to pass through their borders. This happened surprisingly recently in most cases; e.g. the 1930s for most of Europe, IIRC.
The level of liberty isn't like the price of oil. Depending on who you are, where you are, and which freedoms you value, "peak freedom" could be in a great variety of different variety of times and places, even in the present.
For example, you talk about the time before the '30s. That era may have been peak freedom for white people, but for everyone else it came later. Peak freedom for Venezuelans is definitely sometime before Chavez, but in Chile or Uruguay it may be in the present. If you value freedom in being able to use cannabis, go to the Netherlands. If you value it in not being taxed, go to the Caymans.
No, in fact they tend to dislike aliens.
You know, unless your goal is to perpetuate the stereotype of Christians as humorless and judgmental, you may want to reconsider the way you respond to irreverent people.
Wow dude, totally TMI there.
Hilarious, and deserving of more eyeballs than it's going to get buried this deep in the comments, but at least *I* liked it.