Okay, but what you're doing isn't natural. How can you think that the exact opposite of what is needed for human cooperation is right?
Keep it hidden, keep it secret.
Your public acts of asshattery really disgust many people, and if you had any morals you would just scream at yourself in the mirror. But no, you need to show off (for a bigger thrill?) and make people sick with what they see as assholish.
It is not your place or right to say, "Well, too bad. If you don't like it don't look." It's confusing for our kids to see, and again ends up seeming as though all you have is one giant, inflamed rectum, spewing your diarhea all over creation.
It's true the Enterprise has never flown any further than gliding off the back of a 747; and the Explorer (at Kennedy Space Center) is really just a big model, with a few authentic parts. But I doubt they'll replace them with the 'real' shuttles. Two reasons - the Enterprise & Explorer are in better condition than the Endeavour or the Discovery; and the amount of money involved wouldn't be small, even by the Smithsonian's budget.
stick the remaining three in museums where they belong.
I dunno, have there been any plans to do so once they retire in 2010? The Smithsonian already has theirs, and given the amount of floor space required to properly display it, I dunno how many other museums in the US would really have the budget...
Course, I suppose they could put them up on Ebay... I'm sure Paul Allen wouldn't mind getting one for the collection...
Considering they were willing to slander and libel Mr. Schiavo at every opportunity and heavily edit video to give the false appearance of some level of cognitive function, I'd say the Schindlers would have made up any fable.
Yeah, that was my feeling. When a relative of mine was in a similair state a number of years back, all the doctors that we talked to pretty much said the same thing - coming back from a coma was possible, although very rare if they didn't wake up within a few months. But at a certain point, there's nothing left to repair... it's the difference between a puncture wound and amputation.
On a side note... It wasn't until after the whole Schiavo thing blew over that I figured out why it bothered me so much. The very same people who go on about the sanctity of marriage were trying to take away the right of a spouse to make medical decisions for a incapitated spouse. Isn't that a much worse precedent that my two female neigbors?
This guy wasn't ever brain dead. Full brain death is when even the stem is toast - you need life support just to breath.
Persistent vegetative state is when brain function beyond circulation, digestion, and respiration are gone.
It's been a few years since a close relation was in a coma, but as I remember, there was 20 criteria, from pupil response to awareness of pain, that a patient had to fail (in two tests, something like 30 days apart) to be considered vegetative. Mrs. Schiavo fit into this category.
As I understood it at the time, minimally conscious state was when one passed most or all of the criteria, but did not regain consciousness for a long period of time. None of the articles specifically state, but we can assume that this guy passed most of the criteria not too long after the accident. Mrs. Schiavo did not. At least not according to the doctors at the hospital or nursing home. (I think her parents may have testified that there was pupil response, but....)
So if someone is "brain dead" are they really dead? If someone's brain is "damanged beyond repair" are they really not worth saving? How would you feel like if you found out the day after they pulled the plug on someone you loved that the answer to those questions were "not necessarily" and that "almost full recovery is possible if you can keep the patient alive long enough for the necessary technology to pass clinical trials"?
Consider two things:
1.)The brain is the basis of who one is
2.)Most modern neurologic research agrees that it's the connections between neurons that stores the information.
A sufficient level of damage, randomly distributed throught the brain (such as through oxygen depravation) is likely going to mean that half of the neurons in the body are going to either be damaged, or connected to one that is damaged. Even if you can repair them at some later date, do you really think that the information they contained is going to be repaired along with it? Would you want to start all over, with the mental level of an infant, in a thirty year old body?
Because it wouldn't be something if you were psychic while in a coma, for 18 years. I mean, who would you tell?
I guess it depends on what kind of psychic you're talking about... but I would assume the ability to recieve and broadcast... In which case it would be the perfect cover. Who's going to suspect the guy in the almost-coma of being the one secretly controlling the world, eh?
I've been dealing with certain members of my family for decades... I've gotten used to the idea that just because some of your relatives are worthless, doesn't me you are...
I mean, statistically speaking, you are worthless, but there's always the chance you're not.
The RIAA would argue that it's not in your home if your sharing it over a computer...
with somebody else...
who's also in their own home...
and...
umm...
Heh, look, it's this year's Britney clone! Don't you want to run out and buy her studio album, live album, remixed live album, and tour DVD? If you say no, we'll know you're copying it...
A film major I knew back in 2000 claimed that the only reason for that movie was so that somebody could write off a dozen sets of 12 different colored lens. Apparently those things ain't cheap.
If you don't like it here, leave. But that's completely out of character for me. But, seriously... the Constitution is, literally, what our government is based on. A looser confederation was tried first, and it didn't work. So all the states got back together, and decided that a national government stronger than any individual state was necessary.
I figured that you select a metric that satisfies your own curiosity and compare it.
Thank you for making my point for me. You're apparently selecting your data after making your conclusion. Not exactly the scientific method with which I'm comfortable.
And, no, my comment wasn't a smart-ass way to avoid the primary issue... I just have a different primary issue. Mine being, when one selects your figures correctly, your facts come out to say what you want them to.
Plot of a graph with a metric representing government regulation and subsides, government management of the economy, and a metric representing the centralization of capital and increase size of large corporations, and you will see they match each other almost perfectly.
Forgive me, I'm just a lowly student who understands these thing not... but I cannot find, to save my life, the units for "government regulation", "government management of the economy", and "centralization of capital". It must be in those 500 level economics classes, eh? Or, perhaps, that's what your doctoral thesis was on?
As some who routinuely has to go several months with real internet access (a massive 64K line shared among thirty computers, and twice that many guys trying to use them), if you can't go three days without access to make a very important point, I feel sorry for you. By you, I don't mean you, since it seems you're in your own group 1. I mean all the people in Group 2... which, I think, is probably a lot smaller than you think... for their personal 'important issue'.
Damn, I think I used too many different "you"s in the previous sentence. But you know what I mean.
In a better universe every issue would be decided by logical analysis of all known paths to reach the result that would benefit the most people the most.
And if men were angels, no government would be necessary.
Sarcasm & 18th century quotes aside, your statement is a good ideal to strive for... but considering that today, on all sides, on nearly every issue, people argue over the most basic facts.
(Surface temperatures warming or not? If they are, are they warming equally, and how much is the urban heat island? Adolescent crime rate of X years back higher or lower than it is today? Recreational drugs a huge threat to our society or a paper tiger? Etc.)
Indeed, most career politicians would probably argue that the system, as it is now, is close to what you describe - but since everyone has a different view of what's best for everyone, compromises are made, and no one persons vision has complete dominance over all. (Although some people's vision are certainly... self-centered, to put it nicely.)
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Keep it hidden, keep it secret.
Your public acts of asshattery really disgust many people, and if you had any morals you would just scream at yourself in the mirror. But no, you need to show off (for a bigger thrill?) and make people sick with what they see as assholish.
It is not your place or right to say, "Well, too bad. If you don't like it don't look." It's confusing for our kids to see, and again ends up seeming as though all you have is one giant, inflamed rectum, spewing your diarhea all over creation.
I guess patronizing racism is better than belligerent, repressive racism. I mean, ish.
Admittedly, it depends on the country, but there is such a thing as immigration...
It's true the Enterprise has never flown any further than gliding off the back of a 747; and the Explorer (at Kennedy Space Center) is really just a big model, with a few authentic parts. But I doubt they'll replace them with the 'real' shuttles. Two reasons - the Enterprise & Explorer are in better condition than the Endeavour or the Discovery; and the amount of money involved wouldn't be small, even by the Smithsonian's budget.
I dunno, have there been any plans to do so once they retire in 2010? The Smithsonian already has theirs, and given the amount of floor space required to properly display it, I dunno how many other museums in the US would really have the budget...
Course, I suppose they could put them up on Ebay... I'm sure Paul Allen wouldn't mind getting one for the collection...
Yeah, that was my feeling. When a relative of mine was in a similair state a number of years back, all the doctors that we talked to pretty much said the same thing - coming back from a coma was possible, although very rare if they didn't wake up within a few months. But at a certain point, there's nothing left to repair... it's the difference between a puncture wound and amputation.
On a side note... It wasn't until after the whole Schiavo thing blew over that I figured out why it bothered me so much. The very same people who go on about the sanctity of marriage were trying to take away the right of a spouse to make medical decisions for a incapitated spouse. Isn't that a much worse precedent that my two female neigbors?
This guy wasn't ever brain dead. Full brain death is when even the stem is toast - you need life support just to breath.
Persistent vegetative state is when brain function beyond circulation, digestion, and respiration are gone.
It's been a few years since a close relation was in a coma, but as I remember, there was 20 criteria, from pupil response to awareness of pain, that a patient had to fail (in two tests, something like 30 days apart) to be considered vegetative. Mrs. Schiavo fit into this category.
As I understood it at the time, minimally conscious state was when one passed most or all of the criteria, but did not regain consciousness for a long period of time. None of the articles specifically state, but we can assume that this guy passed most of the criteria not too long after the accident. Mrs. Schiavo did not. At least not according to the doctors at the hospital or nursing home. (I think her parents may have testified that there was pupil response, but....)
(Emphasis added)
Consider two things:
1.)The brain is the basis of who one is
2.)Most modern neurologic research agrees that it's the connections between neurons that stores the information.
A sufficient level of damage, randomly distributed throught the brain (such as through oxygen depravation) is likely going to mean that half of the neurons in the body are going to either be damaged, or connected to one that is damaged. Even if you can repair them at some later date, do you really think that the information they contained is going to be repaired along with it? Would you want to start all over, with the mental level of an infant, in a thirty year old body?
I guess it depends on what kind of psychic you're talking about... but I would assume the ability to recieve and broadcast... In which case it would be the perfect cover. Who's going to suspect the guy in the almost-coma of being the one secretly controlling the world, eh?
And, of course, if they succeed, any additional money that AllofMP3 makes before the judgement is rendered is additional profit for them...
No. I'm just this tactless.
I mean, statistically speaking, you are worthless, but there's always the chance you're not.
but I dunno. I mean, they still give me mod points every other week, and I just close my eyes and click.
with somebody else...
who's also in their own home...
and...
umm...
Heh, look, it's this year's Britney clone! Don't you want to run out and buy her studio album, live album, remixed live album, and tour DVD? If you say no, we'll know you're copying it...
A film major I knew back in 2000 claimed that the only reason for that movie was so that somebody could write off a dozen sets of 12 different colored lens. Apparently those things ain't cheap.
If you don't like it here, leave. But that's completely out of character for me. But, seriously... the Constitution is, literally, what our government is based on. A looser confederation was tried first, and it didn't work. So all the states got back together, and decided that a national government stronger than any individual state was necessary.
Is that actually your place, and if not, how long did it take you to find it?
Pedantic nerds, whiny liberals, delusional libertarians, and various combinations of the three?
Thank you for making my point for me. You're apparently selecting your data after making your conclusion. Not exactly the scientific method with which I'm comfortable.
And, no, my comment wasn't a smart-ass way to avoid the primary issue... I just have a different primary issue. Mine being, when one selects your figures correctly, your facts come out to say what you want them to.
Forgive me, I'm just a lowly student who understands these thing not... but I cannot find, to save my life, the units for "government regulation", "government management of the economy", and "centralization of capital". It must be in those 500 level economics classes, eh? Or, perhaps, that's what your doctoral thesis was on?
Damn, I think I used too many different "you"s in the previous sentence. But you know what I mean.
And if men were angels, no government would be necessary.
Sarcasm & 18th century quotes aside, your statement is a good ideal to strive for... but considering that today, on all sides, on nearly every issue, people argue over the most basic facts.
(Surface temperatures warming or not? If they are, are they warming equally, and how much is the urban heat island? Adolescent crime rate of X years back higher or lower than it is today? Recreational drugs a huge threat to our society or a paper tiger? Etc.)
Indeed, most career politicians would probably argue that the system, as it is now, is close to what you describe - but since everyone has a different view of what's best for everyone, compromises are made, and no one persons vision has complete dominance over all. (Although some people's vision are certainly... self-centered, to put it nicely.)
Well, in English, it could be just a typo. But in Spanish, those keys are kinda far apart on the keyboard...