I quited understanding astrophysics it's been a while already. I actually like to read about this kind of stuff, they aways find a way to explain it with no formulas and a bunch of graphics and animations, but even with that it's getting hard to read this shit. I was watching that History Channel series about the universe and astrophysics full of cool animations and physics professors explaining it in a easy way, but when they started to explain the relation of cords, tissues, 10+ dimensions, black matter and etc it got just too abstract. It seems that when they can't explain something through an equation they just invent some particle or dimension to full fill the gap. Even the animation got completely abstract, I started to imagine how mad the animation guy got trying to make something visually understandable and interesting from the physicians explanations (fucking physicians smoking fucking pot, fuck it, fucking universe of 10+ fucking dimensions, imma just put a a MilkDrop preset in this shit and that's it).
How so?? I agree they are orthogonal in the sense that they can't even be compared since they aren't adjectives of the same stuff. Democracy is a regime, republic is a way of government, a country can be both or none. USA is a democratic republic, it's under democratic regime and republican government. It's easy to say if a country is a republic because you just have to examine it's government, but democracy is a very subjective issue, you have to observe not only the existence of direct elections, but also press liberty, education and information access, liberty of ideas, freedom plurality in political parties and etc.
Maybe americans get messed up about this because of the political parties name, it puts these 2 different stuff in the same plane: political ideas when actually these names are only a matter of "marketing" (Republican party is democratic as well since it tries to govern through democracy and direct elections).
If you take a look at ancient greek cities such as Sparta and Athens and also Rome during the republic, you'll see they were clearly republics, and also due to it's republican govern democracy existed in a very limited way even if democracy concept wasn't clear at that time. So you can say that these 2 stuff are complementary, they may even be implemented separated, but when they are used together (+ capitalism and freedom) you have a very solid basis for a democratic and free society.
1- Is there any super porn app for Android that I don't know?
2- An important British study reveals that while men like to shower with face turned to shower, most of the women prefer to turn the back (I'm serious, can't remember where I saw it).
3- Women aim for the more expensive aways.
4- Women don't care about tech, they care about "glamour", Apple = tech glamour.
5- You might be asking: "So what about the gays?" I answer that for you: They care more about hardware, that hardware function you know... the camera I mean.
6- After this study, no matter what, more and more man will buy android for a matter of macho pride.
7- Another important study conduct for years concluded that men do have more sense of humor than women.
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I quited understanding astrophysics it's been a while already. I actually like to read about this kind of stuff, they aways find a way to explain it with no formulas and a bunch of graphics and animations, but even with that it's getting hard to read this shit. I was watching that History Channel series about the universe and astrophysics full of cool animations and physics professors explaining it in a easy way, but when they started to explain the relation of cords, tissues, 10+ dimensions, black matter and etc it got just too abstract. It seems that when they can't explain something through an equation they just invent some particle or dimension to full fill the gap. Even the animation got completely abstract, I started to imagine how mad the animation guy got trying to make something visually understandable and interesting from the physicians explanations (fucking physicians smoking fucking pot, fuck it, fucking universe of 10+ fucking dimensions, imma just put a a MilkDrop preset in this shit and that's it).
Republic is orthogonal to Democracy.
How so?? I agree they are orthogonal in the sense that they can't even be compared since they aren't adjectives of the same stuff. Democracy is a regime, republic is a way of government, a country can be both or none. USA is a democratic republic, it's under democratic regime and republican government. It's easy to say if a country is a republic because you just have to examine it's government, but democracy is a very subjective issue, you have to observe not only the existence of direct elections, but also press liberty, education and information access, liberty of ideas, freedom plurality in political parties and etc. Maybe americans get messed up about this because of the political parties name, it puts these 2 different stuff in the same plane: political ideas when actually these names are only a matter of "marketing" (Republican party is democratic as well since it tries to govern through democracy and direct elections). If you take a look at ancient greek cities such as Sparta and Athens and also Rome during the republic, you'll see they were clearly republics, and also due to it's republican govern democracy existed in a very limited way even if democracy concept wasn't clear at that time. So you can say that these 2 stuff are complementary, they may even be implemented separated, but when they are used together (+ capitalism and freedom) you have a very solid basis for a democratic and free society.
1- Is there any super porn app for Android that I don't know? 2- An important British study reveals that while men like to shower with face turned to shower, most of the women prefer to turn the back (I'm serious, can't remember where I saw it). 3- Women aim for the more expensive aways. 4- Women don't care about tech, they care about "glamour", Apple = tech glamour. 5- You might be asking: "So what about the gays?" I answer that for you: They care more about hardware, that hardware function you know... the camera I mean. 6- After this study, no matter what, more and more man will buy android for a matter of macho pride. 7- Another important study conduct for years concluded that men do have more sense of humor than women.