Recent evidence would seem to suggest that said greedy people do not wind up contributing in a meaningful way, but instead wind up finding every edge case they can to try to skim off the productivity of others.
But if you're taking such a long view that 2 billion years matters, you may as well give up, because in 10^15 years there is just no escaping proton decay and the heat death of the universe.
The tradition of 'the pen (speech) is mighter than the sword (killing)' is very misleading. Speech itself in this context is mainly a motivator for killing. It's a shorthand that says that one good speaker can get you access to a lot of swordsmen, while one swordsman gets you precisely one swordsman.
100K (did they really get that many?) is an absolutely enormous sample size. Most of our electoral polls (you know, the ones that have a significant impact on our political outcomes) are based on a couple of thousand people polled.
You want the anarchy party. I should have thought that was pretty obvious. Unfortunately, it's a small party, you're pretty unlikely to win any seats. Too many people would prefer that a mass murderer be arrested, even if inside his home.
I am a liberal. Not a democrat, a liberal. I use that as a shorthand proxy for my ideas. If you want to guess how I think about something, it is better than any other proxy word I can use. People want to understand things with ease, and that's a necessary part of our political process, there's just no way every person can understand the complexity of one other person's beliefs, much less millions. Proxy words are a necessity, and there is a limited pool.
"Get away with"? Since when did simple facts become something one needs to "get away with"? Racism isn't stating facts, racism is attributing those facts to some genetic component instead of the actual causes like poverty and cultural/social issues.
Sadly, you're probably right. Everyone's so quick to jump up and down showing how non-racist they are they'll take any statement they can as racist because, by extension, pointing out how horribly racist everyone else is shows how non-racist you are these days.
Racism isn't even ascribing the facts to genetics. Racism is ascribing the attribute to all members of the group without discrimination. It could, for example, be a fact that black people commit more crimes. It could be a fact that they do so due to a genetic inclination. But if I judge an honest black person to be a criminal because he's black, that's racism, because there are (clearly) exceptions to these 'rules'.
Believe it or not, I've actually seen those and they're battery-powered. I wasn't looking you understand, but did notice it in a certain section of a local "smoke shop". There was a brightly-colored blurb that said "BATTERIES INCLUDED!", among other things.
BTW you do know that it's the right-wingers who are into wild, uninhibited kink right? The lefties tend to be pretty vanilla. Though as a leftish person I happen to know for a fact there are exceptions.
That's an urban legend. There may be a few (notable!) exceptions, where right-wingers are merely 'in the closet' about some issue (whether being pedophiles or gay, etc), but most of them are legitimately conservative. Conservatism is based on a genetic inclination to fear the unknown to an unreasonable degree, and therefore most conservatives are not experimental when it comes to sex or any other aspect of their lives.
I don't care if Parent Teacher Associations have gone federal or not, they are not allowed to tell me what I can think up. Won't someone think of the children? Wait, now I'm starting to tell you what you can think.
It was a picture book? That's what people worry about, the imagery, rather than the text. If it has to come from your mind, the imagery is already there. If it comes from the movie, the movie can put it there.
They'd better hope their gonads haven't been hit by too many rads, because they are going to need children, grand-children, great-grand-children, etc to keep repeating that message.
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In how many years do you imagine we'd be able to get more than 5% of the earth's population lifted to orbit?
They were represented by their governments (USA and UK), and have done absolutely not a thing in space without their government's sign-off.
Recent evidence would seem to suggest that said greedy people do not wind up contributing in a meaningful way, but instead wind up finding every edge case they can to try to skim off the productivity of others.
What does a private business care about the space treaty? Bring a gold-heavy asteroid back to earth in secret and start selling.
But if you're taking such a long view that 2 billion years matters, you may as well give up, because in 10^15 years there is just no escaping proton decay and the heat death of the universe.
The tradition of 'the pen (speech) is mighter than the sword (killing)' is very misleading. Speech itself in this context is mainly a motivator for killing. It's a shorthand that says that one good speaker can get you access to a lot of swordsmen, while one swordsman gets you precisely one swordsman.
How about reading the source study. This internet thing is not that hard to operate. Wired is a convenient, fast proxy for the full study.
There are a number of studies on this. I suggest you go read the source materials. Liberal and conservative are well defined.
PC Users almost certainly have more than ten times the education of mac users. I mean seriously, does anyone doubt this?
100K (did they really get that many?) is an absolutely enormous sample size. Most of our electoral polls (you know, the ones that have a significant impact on our political outcomes) are based on a couple of thousand people polled.
You want the anarchy party. I should have thought that was pretty obvious.
Unfortunately, it's a small party, you're pretty unlikely to win any seats. Too many people would prefer that a mass murderer be arrested, even if inside his home.
I am a liberal. Not a democrat, a liberal. I use that as a shorthand proxy for my ideas. If you want to guess how I think about something, it is better than any other proxy word I can use. People want to understand things with ease, and that's a necessary part of our political process, there's just no way every person can understand the complexity of one other person's beliefs, much less millions. Proxy words are a necessity, and there is a limited pool.
"Get away with"? Since when did simple facts become something one needs to "get away with"? Racism isn't stating facts, racism is attributing those facts to some genetic component instead of the actual causes like poverty and cultural/social issues.
Sadly, you're probably right. Everyone's so quick to jump up and down showing how non-racist they are they'll take any statement they can as racist because, by extension, pointing out how horribly racist everyone else is shows how non-racist you are these days.
Racism isn't even ascribing the facts to genetics. Racism is ascribing the attribute to all members of the group without discrimination. It could, for example, be a fact that black people commit more crimes. It could be a fact that they do so due to a genetic inclination. But if I judge an honest black person to be a criminal because he's black, that's racism, because there are (clearly) exceptions to these 'rules'.
Believe it or not, I've actually seen those and they're battery-powered. I wasn't looking you understand, but did notice it in a certain section of a local "smoke shop". There was a brightly-colored blurb that said "BATTERIES INCLUDED!", among other things.
BTW you do know that it's the right-wingers who are into wild, uninhibited kink right? The lefties tend to be pretty vanilla. Though as a leftish person I happen to know for a fact there are exceptions.
That's an urban legend. There may be a few (notable!) exceptions, where right-wingers are merely 'in the closet' about some issue (whether being pedophiles or gay, etc), but most of them are legitimately conservative. Conservatism is based on a genetic inclination to fear the unknown to an unreasonable degree, and therefore most conservatives are not experimental when it comes to sex or any other aspect of their lives.
There have been actual studies proving this. Here's one:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/fearmongering-h/
The real problem with Avatar has to be that it is the worst game-to-movie adaptation of all time. I mean seriously, how do you omit Lord British?
That's an excellent analogy. Makes me wonder what went on in the courtroom that prevented the jury from seeing just how obvious this patent was!
I'd guess it was the lack of jury.
I don't care if Parent Teacher Associations have gone federal or not, they are not allowed to tell me what I can think up. Won't someone think of the children? Wait, now I'm starting to tell you what you can think.
Not at all. Composition is a powerful tool.
You're both acting like piracy and disdain for authority are bad things.
Though there have at this point been a couple of studies showing a link between violent media exposure and aggressive behavior.
For example:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WH0-4B9D74R-1&_user=10&_coverDate=02%2F29%2F2004&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=gateway&_origin=gateway&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1726766733&_rerunOrigin=scholar.google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=000dac5c614a27b7ccb552d7dc6b1853&searchtype=a
Self regulation is the opposite of mandatory. Anyone is free to market and sell an unrated game or movie.
It was a picture book? That's what people worry about, the imagery, rather than the text. If it has to come from your mind, the imagery is already there. If it comes from the movie, the movie can put it there.
I think that was, in fact, actually one of the plans at one point. But they've had sooooooo many plans, who can keep track anymore.
They'd better hope their gonads haven't been hit by too many rads, because they are going to need children, grand-children, great-grand-children, etc to keep repeating that message.
Ah, they've changed it again then ... there have been at least 3 different AOL career messages there now.