I can go back to not giving a shit about other people and spend all my time looking after my own interests. What a relief!
OK, so people will blindly answer tests in a way that make them sound like good people, therefore the test is fundamentally flawed (assuming I understand your argument correctly). So how does this explain why modern students are answering those questions so differently from students from two to three decades ago? Are modern students more likely to think they are bad people? Are modern students more honest in their self-analysis? Or are they legitimately more sociopathic than students from the past? I don't see how your arguments address any of that.
Human beings are social mammals. Like other social mammals, our whole survival strategy is working together towards certain common goals. Our survival strategy is each other. Without each other we would still be lion food in the east African Savannah. We would still be chasing our food with sticks sharpened in fires. While I am glad our modern western societies provide more individualism and individual freedom than societies in the past, some people take it way too far into "I got mine!" territory.
...but the overall declines in bee populations seem to coincide roughly with the penetration of cellular networks into rural areas. I would suggest that more studies on this would be a good thing as the loss of bees has very serious implications for humanity. Even if the studies turn up nothing, at least then we will know, which is not something we can say about some random poster on the Internet waving his hands around and declaring "it's definitely nothing!"
I appreciate your insights, but you are not a scientist.
...although it may be some time before we really know if it worked. The reason they waited this long to try this particular method is that there is a chance of things going disastrously wrong. I hope that pressure drops fast.
You can't call it the Judeo-Christian God. Remember it's a non-specific, non-religious phrase that doesn't actually mean anything at all, or at least that's the excuse courts keep using to keep phrases like that in the pledge and on our money. If you specifically say it is the Judeo-Christian God, then we can't have it on our money or in our pledge, so it definitely couldn't be that. I need a "roll eyes" smiley right here. Sigh.
Making our children recite any kind of loyalty oath is weird. It sounds like something you hear about happening in a communist country or in Iran. That it has been perverted into religious indoctrination makes it even worse, but that's still not the primary problem I have with it.
...the board scripts also seem to accommodate accented characters common to other European languages. I'd still love to see a definitive list of which ones work and which ones don't.
Why is your engine running at all when you're sitting at a stoplight? Many European countries require drives to turn off their engines when stopped at a traffic light. So because you are not capable of turning off your engine at a stoplight, you want to charge the taxpayers for the fuel you chose to waste? I'm not following your logic at all.
I gave up on cable a long time ago. Maybe if they offer me Internet service with better capless data rates than the competition for a lower price, I'll consider coming back.
You know what I've discovered in the interim? I don't really need TV, and I can rent the good shows on disk, or watch them online. It's been quite liberating.
You and I help subsidize the R&D of those drugs, and the drug companies spend far more money advertising those drugs than they spend developing them. Hell, they spend more money bribing (oops, I mean "lobbying") politicians than they spend on researching those drugs. The usual corporatist elements of our mainstream media like to play up the cost of R&D by pharmaceutical companies to excuse the fleecing they give the American public (but somehow not other industrialized countries), but those claims are pretty much horsesh*t too.
I agree that HP is feeding us a bunch of horsesh*t (the real reason was summed up nicely by Publilius Syrus: "Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it"), but I don't think the comparison you make is necessarily a good one.
Back in the days of Asheron's Call, Turbine didn't go as far as the developers of EVE, but they went way out of their way to interact with and respond to the player community. Their customer relations were far ahead of their two competitors, and for their efforts they were rewarded with being #3 out of 3 in terms of active subscriptions.
Cryptic recently tried a similar "player council" idea, and the usual whiners on the official forums exploded with rage at the very idea.
So no, this kind of behavior by devs is not always rewarded with increased sales. Developers are the way they are because of the purchasing decisions made by us.
Right now nuclear power plants are not economically viable without massive government subsidies. When energy becomes expensive enough, eventually nuclear power will become economically viable, but until then, there are a lot of other alternatives that can offer energy without such steep costs to the taxpayers (although still some cost).
How do you know setting off a nuke won't open up a fissure somewhere else that just lets the oil vent there? Plugging it up and capping it off sounds a lot less random.
...does this estimate factor in the large amount of dispersants used? Not all the oil that spewed out of the oil volcano ended up in the slick we see on the surface.
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I can go back to not giving a shit about other people and spend all my time looking after my own interests. What a relief!
OK, so people will blindly answer tests in a way that make them sound like good people, therefore the test is fundamentally flawed (assuming I understand your argument correctly). So how does this explain why modern students are answering those questions so differently from students from two to three decades ago? Are modern students more likely to think they are bad people? Are modern students more honest in their self-analysis? Or are they legitimately more sociopathic than students from the past? I don't see how your arguments address any of that.
I'm just stunned that it wouldn't be obvious.
Human beings are social mammals. Like other social mammals, our whole survival strategy is working together towards certain common goals. Our survival strategy is each other. Without each other we would still be lion food in the east African Savannah. We would still be chasing our food with sticks sharpened in fires. While I am glad our modern western societies provide more individualism and individual freedom than societies in the past, some people take it way too far into "I got mine!" territory.
...but the overall declines in bee populations seem to coincide roughly with the penetration of cellular networks into rural areas. I would suggest that more studies on this would be a good thing as the loss of bees has very serious implications for humanity. Even if the studies turn up nothing, at least then we will know, which is not something we can say about some random poster on the Internet waving his hands around and declaring "it's definitely nothing!"
I appreciate your insights, but you are not a scientist.
...although it may be some time before we really know if it worked. The reason they waited this long to try this particular method is that there is a chance of things going disastrously wrong. I hope that pressure drops fast.
You can't call it the Judeo-Christian God. Remember it's a non-specific, non-religious phrase that doesn't actually mean anything at all, or at least that's the excuse courts keep using to keep phrases like that in the pledge and on our money. If you specifically say it is the Judeo-Christian God, then we can't have it on our money or in our pledge, so it definitely couldn't be that. I need a "roll eyes" smiley right here. Sigh.
Making our children recite any kind of loyalty oath is weird. It sounds like something you hear about happening in a communist country or in Iran. That it has been perverted into religious indoctrination makes it even worse, but that's still not the primary problem I have with it.
Thanks for making me laugh!
...the board scripts also seem to accommodate accented characters common to other European languages. I'd still love to see a definitive list of which ones work and which ones don't.
I guess the answer is “sorta”.
Why is your engine running at all when you're sitting at a stoplight? Many European countries require drives to turn off their engines when stopped at a traffic light. So because you are not capable of turning off your engine at a stoplight, you want to charge the taxpayers for the fuel you chose to waste? I'm not following your logic at all.
How then do you explain the existence of country and western "music"?
I gave up on cable a long time ago. Maybe if they offer me Internet service with better capless data rates than the competition for a lower price, I'll consider coming back.
You know what I've discovered in the interim? I don't really need TV, and I can rent the good shows on disk, or watch them online. It's been quite liberating.
...in this comparison.
You and I help subsidize the R&D of those drugs, and the drug companies spend far more money advertising those drugs than they spend developing them. Hell, they spend more money bribing (oops, I mean "lobbying") politicians than they spend on researching those drugs. The usual corporatist elements of our mainstream media like to play up the cost of R&D by pharmaceutical companies to excuse the fleecing they give the American public (but somehow not other industrialized countries), but those claims are pretty much horsesh*t too.
I agree that HP is feeding us a bunch of horsesh*t (the real reason was summed up nicely by Publilius Syrus: "Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it"), but I don't think the comparison you make is necessarily a good one.
Back in the days of Asheron's Call, Turbine didn't go as far as the developers of EVE, but they went way out of their way to interact with and respond to the player community. Their customer relations were far ahead of their two competitors, and for their efforts they were rewarded with being #3 out of 3 in terms of active subscriptions.
Cryptic recently tried a similar "player council" idea, and the usual whiners on the official forums exploded with rage at the very idea.
So no, this kind of behavior by devs is not always rewarded with increased sales. Developers are the way they are because of the purchasing decisions made by us.
...but that was only because I waited for the driver problem to get sorted out before buying Vista. :P
Right now nuclear power plants are not economically viable without massive government subsidies. When energy becomes expensive enough, eventually nuclear power will become economically viable, but until then, there are a lot of other alternatives that can offer energy without such steep costs to the taxpayers (although still some cost).
How do you know setting off a nuke won't open up a fissure somewhere else that just lets the oil vent there? Plugging it up and capping it off sounds a lot less random.
...but I'm betting this will be a heck of a lot more robust than Google Docs. Competition is a good thing.
I think the French have the right idea on this subject: if you're not supposed to use the word, why include it in your language in the first place?
It doesn't work too well as a preposition.
When you find that the facts conflict with your ideology, it must be the facts that are wrong, so go ahead and change the facts.
I'm so glad our small non-profit doesn't rely on donations for funding. Yeesh.
...does this estimate factor in the large amount of dispersants used? Not all the oil that spewed out of the oil volcano ended up in the slick we see on the surface.
Glenn Beck told me that environmentalism is the same thing as being a Nazi. Why do you hate America? Why do you hate our freedom? [/teabagger]