I feel like I had a reasonable liberal arts education for my degree. Most of the business/finance stuff I can do or research on my own. I don't need any classes in it except for maybe some grad level financial math courses if I wanted to have a career as a quant or something. As an undergrad, I took two semesters of humanities (covered from Ancient Greek to Renaissance), one of music appreciation, one of Japanese history (from pre-feudal to WWII), two of American history (Revolution to 1960's), one of US government, one of anthropology, two of Japanese language, one of speech, one of composition, one of scientific ethics, etc. Some of them were not required but all the same. You can take a few extra liberal arts classes to satisfy electives. I think most colleges are pretty good about requiring students to have liberal arts classes, but are piss poor at requiring liberal arts majors to have science and math courses.
It boggles my mind why a government so set on creating jobs would not consider lowering taxes on corporations. They need to increase taxes on higher income brackets, bonuses, capital gains, and dividends to balance it out, and also prevent the money saved from going to anything other than the working class. However taking 40 percent of a corporations profits only means they have 40 percent less money to grow (and thus hire people). Im all for taxes on the wealthy (its a mechanism that helps keep wealth distributed evenly) be it for their gains from investments or on salaries above some threshold, but it doesn't make sense to tax companies.
Well, now that property is being taxed with your employers money and there were taxes associated with its sale. I don't thinks is very fair that your company was used that way, but there is some income for the government from it. I think that a more proper way of handling that would have been to save the money for a rainy day but I guess greedy dilettante big-wigs need several houses.
Not a very good analogy. The point is that one should tax people not organizations. I know a corporation has human rights, for reasoning that doesn't make sense to me, but taxing CEO's and board members along with the employees makes more sense than taxing the organization AND all of the board members and employees. Its like getting hit twice. If a company has more profits, it will get taxed one way or another as payouts to more employees or taxed from big bonuses to the board members.
The galactic dictator Xenu transported his undesirable citizens in space craft that looked like DC-8's to Earth. He had them placed in brainwashing facilities to convince them that they had gods and religion. Then he put them in volcanos and nuked 'em. Their souls existed after their deaths and clinged to our evolving ancestors souls making us heavier and clouding out our thoughts with the souls religious brainwashings. That is why we have religion today kids.
Yeah, and then the poor could not afford to send their kids to school. Fix the poverty problem first, redistribute the wealth, and maybe then I could agree with you.
I want the government to force religious education into private schools. Private schools still can apply for government grants, and its the business of the state and the feds to decide how many grants they want to have available to private religious schools, but government is supposed to be secular so they should only be allowed to fully fund secular education.
Origin of the universe has pretty good proof backing up some sort of big band, the details are being debated about it still however. Doesnt matter, fact remains the universe as we know it came from a singularity, what happened 10e-100 seconds after that is what is debated. As far as the origin of life, their is substantial evidence it was bacteria that spawned everything we know, but no one knows for sure where on this planet or in the universe the first bacteria came into existence. Bacteria evolved into cellular organisms by cooperating with eachother in a form of symbiosis. Then, these cells cooperated with eachother leading to multicellular life, and from there things became more complex.
If it was a task such as "Titrate this substance" then yes. However the liberal arts people would probably have already forgotten how to do it. If it was something like "Find the most efficient method to arrange the items on this desk for your co-worker" then no, and I think the liberal arts majors would probably end up having the same end performance. Liberal arts majors can think outside the box just as frequently as science majors and vice verci, that's my point. Saying science makes you "think inside the box" and only liberal arts majors "think outside the box" is just a bullshit line used by liberal arts majors to make themselves feel better about not being in as much demand for jobs or whatever other insecurity they have.
... and he was excommunicated and almost had himself killed. He was dangerous to the church, they didn't want him around, and they actively tried to make his dissent not an option. How again does this make religion the same as science?
Science by its construction encourages it. If some big name scientist is found to be convincingly wrong by some no-name scientist, the knowledge corrects itself rather spectacularly. There are thousands of under-funded scientists out there just dying to get some of the funding of the big wigs, so there are thousands of people critiquing scientific work all the time, releasing literature reviews, or alternate research papers. With religion if you disagree with your religion you are accused of having no faith, threatened with hell or being shunned, etc. Saying a scientist is like a priest is like saying a computer programmer is like a lawyer. Who has more of an incentive to lie or spout out half truths? There is literally very little comparison between the two disciplines.
Furthermore, since the scientific community is cutthroat, there are a bunch of under-funded scientists just waiting to prove big findings by big named scientists wrong. Thats a good tactic to get more funding and make a name for yourself as well. If anything, thats actually a strength of the truth in science that religion cannot match.
However, science encourages you to disagree, debate, and question things for yourself. Religion actively tries to make that not an option because its dangerous for its continued existence.
I don't have much sympathy for them. They have had their whole lives to sort out their finances, vote people into office who represent them, and put their money where their mouth is when it comes to job creation, etc. Except, they didn't handle any of it. They voted people into office that ruined social security, allowed crooks to get away with outright theft on wall street, and the few that got rich off the other moronic baby boomers buy themselves another yacht or house instead of hiring people. Im just trying to get my life started, and I can't because they failed. When my father was just out of high school, he had no problem finding work that paid the same as I would get with a bachelors if you account for inflation. When my grandfather was out of high school, he got a job easily with a power company. He ended up being able to support a family of 5 for the first decade, then working there for a couple more decades he retired with a nice retirement account and some stock courtesy of the company. Good fucking luck finding that if you are 25, educated and willing to work. The reason old folks think its so easy to get work and make a living is because it was for them. Not so anymore for us courtesy of their bad decisions.
I took two anthropology courses, a humanities, a music appreciation, and japanese history. My point is science majors get liberal arts too. Saying that being a liberal arts major is what makes people think outside the box is actually evidence of thinking inside one of your own design.
I like music, fantasy, sci-fi, philosophy, video games, art, weightlifting, boating, and swimming. I also am a musician and sometimes write poetry. My point is to think outside the box you need to be well rounded, not solely focused on liberal arts or science. Im not the most well rounded individual, but Im not totally disregarding liberal arts altogether like he is waving science away as some kind of mind control that makes people into robots. Im just saying that liberal studies majors tend to have less science general education requirements than science majors have liberal studies general education requirements. So saying that scientists are inside the box thinkers because they don't study liberal topics is a farce. All you need to do is take some algebraic geometry or topology to really see how far outside the box mathematicians can get, and frequently scientists have other interests such as art or music as their primary hobby.
No idea of the importance of looking someone in the eye, having a good handshake or listening to someone for more than 140 characters without interrupting them. These same people then proceed to whine about their lack of a social and love life.
Why is this important? Its only important if you make it important by requiring it of people. Im a little shy myself, but I can talk to people in a professional manner and shake hands, etc.. I just don't have anything to say most of the time since I really find it tedious to talk to many people. Not because I think Im smarter than everyone else, its just because I get tired of fake relationships and fake things people do or say to "be social". The next thing you know they will be spreading rumors or talking about things that are not their business behind your back to other colleagues trying to "be social" with them as well. Theres a reason some people keep small groups of friends, and in my case, its because I found the least fake people I could to be my friends.
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I feel like I had a reasonable liberal arts education for my degree. Most of the business/finance stuff I can do or research on my own. I don't need any classes in it except for maybe some grad level financial math courses if I wanted to have a career as a quant or something. As an undergrad, I took two semesters of humanities (covered from Ancient Greek to Renaissance), one of music appreciation, one of Japanese history (from pre-feudal to WWII), two of American history (Revolution to 1960's), one of US government, one of anthropology, two of Japanese language, one of speech, one of composition, one of scientific ethics, etc. Some of them were not required but all the same. You can take a few extra liberal arts classes to satisfy electives. I think most colleges are pretty good about requiring students to have liberal arts classes, but are piss poor at requiring liberal arts majors to have science and math courses.
It boggles my mind why a government so set on creating jobs would not consider lowering taxes on corporations. They need to increase taxes on higher income brackets, bonuses, capital gains, and dividends to balance it out, and also prevent the money saved from going to anything other than the working class. However taking 40 percent of a corporations profits only means they have 40 percent less money to grow (and thus hire people). Im all for taxes on the wealthy (its a mechanism that helps keep wealth distributed evenly) be it for their gains from investments or on salaries above some threshold, but it doesn't make sense to tax companies.
Watch "Bad Taste" some time.
I would wager it was some US technology, but damn it would be cool to see something like that.
It has to be possible to make interstellar travel economical and feasible for humans to do eventually. It just may take several thousand years.
Totalitarianism?
The second quote is remarkably appropriate for many religious people.
Well, now that property is being taxed with your employers money and there were taxes associated with its sale. I don't thinks is very fair that your company was used that way, but there is some income for the government from it. I think that a more proper way of handling that would have been to save the money for a rainy day but I guess greedy dilettante big-wigs need several houses.
Not a very good analogy. The point is that one should tax people not organizations. I know a corporation has human rights, for reasoning that doesn't make sense to me, but taxing CEO's and board members along with the employees makes more sense than taxing the organization AND all of the board members and employees. Its like getting hit twice. If a company has more profits, it will get taxed one way or another as payouts to more employees or taxed from big bonuses to the board members.
The galactic dictator Xenu transported his undesirable citizens in space craft that looked like DC-8's to Earth. He had them placed in brainwashing facilities to convince them that they had gods and religion. Then he put them in volcanos and nuked 'em. Their souls existed after their deaths and clinged to our evolving ancestors souls making us heavier and clouding out our thoughts with the souls religious brainwashings. That is why we have religion today kids.
Thats why they worded it so it doesn't specifically say anything about religion. Its a law that protects teachers who teach evolution as well.
Yeah, and then the poor could not afford to send their kids to school. Fix the poverty problem first, redistribute the wealth, and maybe then I could agree with you.
I want the government to force religious education into private schools. Private schools still can apply for government grants, and its the business of the state and the feds to decide how many grants they want to have available to private religious schools, but government is supposed to be secular so they should only be allowed to fully fund secular education.
Son of the Morning Star, Bringer of Light, Lord of Air, Lucifer.
Origin of the universe has pretty good proof backing up some sort of big band, the details are being debated about it still however. Doesnt matter, fact remains the universe as we know it came from a singularity, what happened 10e-100 seconds after that is what is debated. As far as the origin of life, their is substantial evidence it was bacteria that spawned everything we know, but no one knows for sure where on this planet or in the universe the first bacteria came into existence. Bacteria evolved into cellular organisms by cooperating with eachother in a form of symbiosis. Then, these cells cooperated with eachother leading to multicellular life, and from there things became more complex.
If it was a task such as "Titrate this substance" then yes. However the liberal arts people would probably have already forgotten how to do it. If it was something like "Find the most efficient method to arrange the items on this desk for your co-worker" then no, and I think the liberal arts majors would probably end up having the same end performance. Liberal arts majors can think outside the box just as frequently as science majors and vice verci, that's my point. Saying science makes you "think inside the box" and only liberal arts majors "think outside the box" is just a bullshit line used by liberal arts majors to make themselves feel better about not being in as much demand for jobs or whatever other insecurity they have.
... and he was excommunicated and almost had himself killed. He was dangerous to the church, they didn't want him around, and they actively tried to make his dissent not an option. How again does this make religion the same as science?
Science by its construction encourages it. If some big name scientist is found to be convincingly wrong by some no-name scientist, the knowledge corrects itself rather spectacularly. There are thousands of under-funded scientists out there just dying to get some of the funding of the big wigs, so there are thousands of people critiquing scientific work all the time, releasing literature reviews, or alternate research papers. With religion if you disagree with your religion you are accused of having no faith, threatened with hell or being shunned, etc. Saying a scientist is like a priest is like saying a computer programmer is like a lawyer. Who has more of an incentive to lie or spout out half truths? There is literally very little comparison between the two disciplines.
Furthermore, since the scientific community is cutthroat, there are a bunch of under-funded scientists just waiting to prove big findings by big named scientists wrong. Thats a good tactic to get more funding and make a name for yourself as well. If anything, thats actually a strength of the truth in science that religion cannot match.
However, science encourages you to disagree, debate, and question things for yourself. Religion actively tries to make that not an option because its dangerous for its continued existence.
I don't have much sympathy for them. They have had their whole lives to sort out their finances, vote people into office who represent them, and put their money where their mouth is when it comes to job creation, etc. Except, they didn't handle any of it. They voted people into office that ruined social security, allowed crooks to get away with outright theft on wall street, and the few that got rich off the other moronic baby boomers buy themselves another yacht or house instead of hiring people. Im just trying to get my life started, and I can't because they failed. When my father was just out of high school, he had no problem finding work that paid the same as I would get with a bachelors if you account for inflation. When my grandfather was out of high school, he got a job easily with a power company. He ended up being able to support a family of 5 for the first decade, then working there for a couple more decades he retired with a nice retirement account and some stock courtesy of the company. Good fucking luck finding that if you are 25, educated and willing to work. The reason old folks think its so easy to get work and make a living is because it was for them. Not so anymore for us courtesy of their bad decisions.
I took two anthropology courses, a humanities, a music appreciation, and japanese history. My point is science majors get liberal arts too. Saying that being a liberal arts major is what makes people think outside the box is actually evidence of thinking inside one of your own design.
I like music, fantasy, sci-fi, philosophy, video games, art, weightlifting, boating, and swimming. I also am a musician and sometimes write poetry. My point is to think outside the box you need to be well rounded, not solely focused on liberal arts or science. Im not the most well rounded individual, but Im not totally disregarding liberal arts altogether like he is waving science away as some kind of mind control that makes people into robots. Im just saying that liberal studies majors tend to have less science general education requirements than science majors have liberal studies general education requirements. So saying that scientists are inside the box thinkers because they don't study liberal topics is a farce. All you need to do is take some algebraic geometry or topology to really see how far outside the box mathematicians can get, and frequently scientists have other interests such as art or music as their primary hobby.
It passes. Come to a college campus some time.
No idea of the importance of looking someone in the eye, having a good handshake or listening to someone for more than 140 characters without interrupting them. These same people then proceed to whine about their lack of a social and love life.
Why is this important? Its only important if you make it important by requiring it of people. Im a little shy myself, but I can talk to people in a professional manner and shake hands, etc.. I just don't have anything to say most of the time since I really find it tedious to talk to many people. Not because I think Im smarter than everyone else, its just because I get tired of fake relationships and fake things people do or say to "be social". The next thing you know they will be spreading rumors or talking about things that are not their business behind your back to other colleagues trying to "be social" with them as well. Theres a reason some people keep small groups of friends, and in my case, its because I found the least fake people I could to be my friends.