We need a consumer's union with millions of members. Not only would we have the power to put a stop to this sort of thing through boycots, but it would be an effective way to educate consumers about what they're buying.
IANAP, but that just sounds like a lot of negativity. There are very negative people who are not at all depressed as far as I can tell.
To me a depressed person would be like:
"I could ask my neighbor for a jump, but he'd only do it out of politeness because he hates me because I'm so depressed all the time, in fact, nobody likes me, I don't have any real friends, this is a good as I'll ever look, this is as many braincells as I'll ever have, what's the point of going to work, to support my meaningless existence? Why don't I just lay down and die instead? After a day nobody would miss me and frankly the world would be better off. And so what if they *did* miss me? Some day all usable energy in the universe will be gone and life will die out anyway so it's all ultimately pointless."
The horrible thing is that it's all true.
"our intelligence indicated that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction in violation of U.N. mandates."
And this is what I'm curious about. This is conventionally held wisdom, but what evidence do you have to support this?
That sounds like I want to send you off on a snipe hunt, but I don't. From my own research, I'm fairly confident that you woouldn't find anything but stories from the administration, and that analysis from our intelligence apparatus actually sought to cast some doubt on whether Iraq still had WMDs and was seeking a nuke, and this even before UN inspectors were back in country.
I understand that depressed people consistantly have a more realistic outlook on life than undepressed people, so maybe you ought to think twice before trying to banish the blues.
Other than comitting the three worst stragic blunders since the Vietnam war while running up a huge deficit and murdering tens of thousands of innocent people, Bush's first term was pretty good.
Who modded this a troll?
c) Universe is still too hot for the tastes of the dominant universe hopping race. Maybe they even let universes lie fallow for a trillion years to see what they develop.
yes, but if you picked a particular universe, eventually they'd reach that universe, and they'd reach it near the beginning of the universe, so any particular universe would have these aliens.
We need a consumer's union. A real one, joined buy millions, that can fight this kind of crap.
It will educate its members on why region codes are a rip off, and then "go out on strike" from HP -- boycott them.
One certainty of economics is that when one side of a transaction is dominated by a few large, organized players, and the other side by many, small, disorganized players, the organized side squeezes the disorganized side.
Social Security is not just security for the individual, it's first and foremost security for society.
During the great depression, the problem was that there wasn't any money. There were goods to buy, and prices were dirt cheap, but nobody had any cash.
Welfare and Social Security guarantee a minimal cashflow at all points of the economy. On the macro level, it doesn't matter whether its a little old grandma, an out of work father, or total dirtbag that's spending money, as long as it gets spent.
These are treasury bonds. Costitutionally, the government has to honor them whether social security needs it or not.
The effect of your scenario will be that social security will no longer make it easier for the government to borrow money, because social security won't be buying any more debt. Maybe that will lead to higher interest rates.
My guess is that Math just doesn't interest women as much.
Take Nethack. I've seen quite a few women play Nethack, and i can't detect any particular deficiencies in their play, but they just don't get absorbed by the game the way a guy can. Hence, very few stellar Nethack players are women.
The thing that Darwin did was come up with a better idea, and that's what needs to appear before any David is going to strike down the Goliath of Evolution.
The deep dark secret of evolution is that it's not a secret and that noone's trying to impose it on anyone, they're just trying to teach it unencumbered in science class because it's science.
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Because that's all that matter to you is profit, who's making it, and who's getting "bamboozled" into giving it to them.
We need a consumer's union with millions of members. Not only would we have the power to put a stop to this sort of thing through boycots, but it would be an effective way to educate consumers about what they're buying.
IANAP, but that just sounds like a lot of negativity. There are very negative people who are not at all depressed as far as I can tell. To me a depressed person would be like: "I could ask my neighbor for a jump, but he'd only do it out of politeness because he hates me because I'm so depressed all the time, in fact, nobody likes me, I don't have any real friends, this is a good as I'll ever look, this is as many braincells as I'll ever have, what's the point of going to work, to support my meaningless existence? Why don't I just lay down and die instead? After a day nobody would miss me and frankly the world would be better off. And so what if they *did* miss me? Some day all usable energy in the universe will be gone and life will die out anyway so it's all ultimately pointless." The horrible thing is that it's all true.
And this is what I'm curious about. This is conventionally held wisdom, but what evidence do you have to support this?
That sounds like I want to send you off on a snipe hunt, but I don't. From my own research, I'm fairly confident that you woouldn't find anything but stories from the administration, and that analysis from our intelligence apparatus actually sought to cast some doubt on whether Iraq still had WMDs and was seeking a nuke, and this even before UN inspectors were back in country.
I know it's a heck of alot further up the Sun's gravity well, and there might be some harsh radiation near Saturn.
Is it doable?
It's foolish to respond to AC, but I'm curious. In your own words, why did we invade Iraq?
I understand that depressed people consistantly have a more realistic outlook on life than undepressed people, so maybe you ought to think twice before trying to banish the blues.
Other than comitting the three worst stragic blunders since the Vietnam war while running up a huge deficit and murdering tens of thousands of innocent people, Bush's first term was pretty good.
Who modded this a troll? c) Universe is still too hot for the tastes of the dominant universe hopping race. Maybe they even let universes lie fallow for a trillion years to see what they develop.
yes, but if you picked a particular universe, eventually they'd reach that universe, and they'd reach it near the beginning of the universe, so any particular universe would have these aliens.
It will educate its members on why region codes are a rip off, and then "go out on strike" from HP -- boycott them.
One certainty of economics is that when one side of a transaction is dominated by a few large, organized players, and the other side by many, small, disorganized players, the organized side squeezes the disorganized side.
It's time to level the playing field.
Me too. On the other hand, I take great comfort in knowing that folks like Bush, Putin and bin Laden will not be around forever.
I thought "Chesty" Puller was the greatest marine of all time.
During the great depression, the problem was that there wasn't any money. There were goods to buy, and prices were dirt cheap, but nobody had any cash.
Welfare and Social Security guarantee a minimal cashflow at all points of the economy. On the macro level, it doesn't matter whether its a little old grandma, an out of work father, or total dirtbag that's spending money, as long as it gets spent.
The effect of your scenario will be that social security will no longer make it easier for the government to borrow money, because social security won't be buying any more debt. Maybe that will lead to higher interest rates.
Take Nethack. I've seen quite a few women play Nethack, and i can't detect any particular deficiencies in their play, but they just don't get absorbed by the game the way a guy can. Hence, very few stellar Nethack players are women.
SFO also has little white mice that come out after midnight, browsing for crumbs over the deserted terminal floors.
"We plan to build a bridge between the two peaks."
Am I the only one who can't stand a WWII shooter where the dominant play style is bunny hopping?
Why did they do that? Do they want to support campers?
So far so good. I'm probably due a couple billion more at least.
The deep dark secret of evolution is that it's not a secret and that noone's trying to impose it on anyone, they're just trying to teach it unencumbered in science class because it's science.
Historians of that era did not use the soundest of methods.
Fun was had by all during the whole Job shenanigan.
nanosecond's gone.