I'll bet Bono his fortune against my fortune that whatever he comes up with can, in fact, be pirated. Heck, I'll even bet him that it will be widely pirated within one week of its release.
Call me, Bono. My riches could be yours if you are as smart as you say.
Yeah WV is a good way to teach American history. I love that they split off from Virginia so that they could remain in the union, and now 150 years later they are the country's third or fourth most backward state. They really really stagnated after the civil war. It might be America's saddest state.
Canada isn't a country. It became mostly a country in the 1980s but in my not-so-humble opinion, no country is a real country if they use the leader of some other country as their head of state.
You are a subject of the Brits so long as you put the Queen on your money and let her roll around in your lands acting as though she owns the place -- which she does.
By a thread, Canada isn't a country. Cut that last thread and you can finally be a real country.
It's hard to believe you wrote all of that (which is more or less reasonable in my opinion, so I have no complaints about that) without mentioning the fact that the UK is a theocratic monarchy.
Theocracy is the most offensive aspect, in my opinion, but monarchy is almost as offensive. Well, gosh maybe monarchy is more offensive. It's hard to decide.
But either of those is vastly more offensive than the Scottish complaint of unbalanced federalism. Hey, unbalanced federalism is a problem, but compared to theocracy and monarchy it's not.
I tried to think of something I care less about in a video game than "level of physics sophistication", and I couldn't think of anything.
Then I tried to think of something I care less about in a video game than "level of 3d graphics" and I thought of one thing: level of physics sophistication.
No, that's not the joke. The joke is that some Asian names overlap with genitalia slang in English, and genitalia puns are funny. Most pairs of languages have such humorous overlaps.
Gosh I hate having to explain jokes, it really ruins the sense.
You are interpreting it to mean the opposite of what it means. If science says "outer space is above the clouds", this bill would prevent you from saying so, because it would "prohibit religious interpretation of scientific facts to mean that heaven is not above the clouds".
I prefer to call it an invention rather than a discovery. It gives more credit to the people who developed it. Either way, I agree, there is literally no other thing that comes close to having the positive impact of the scientific method.
We can't read minds but we can read the private letters and journals of scientists past and compare those writings to their public writings. The private writings of Newton, for instance, show that he was ambivalent and conflicted about the existence of a god -- not that he had decided there were no gods, but that he wasn't at all sure. So that's one example. Compare him to Kepler who almost surely believed in the personal deity described by the Catholic church.
But the beliefs of Newton and Kepler don't really matter. They could have been wrong. What matters is the best evidence and deduction we have and can do today.
That's right. Those early scientists were convinced that by studying the natural world they would validate their religious beliefs. They were wrong about that and later scientists did the honest thing by giving up on that invalid hypothesis and following the evidence.
Early scientists thought they could build telescopes and look up at heaven, but it turned out that heaven wasn't up there. They thought they'd look through microscopes and see angels dancing on pins, but it turned out there were no angels on the pins. They thought they would be able to calculate the movement of the sun around the earth, but it turned out they weren't able to do that. They thought they would inspect a mustard seed and determine that a godly force caused it to transform into a mustard bush, but that didn't turn out to be how it works. They thought that they would inspect living bodies and find that they were built of different kinds of matter than nonliving things, but no, that wasn't so.
Therewith, science and scientists distinguished themselves from religion by giving up on ideas that were wrong.
Yep. And we will until something better comes along. It might be similar to the metric system but with units of useful size, units of equal ratio (cf. the kilogram as a base unit), and a unit ratio of a useful number (say, maybe 12, instead of 10). Get to work on that and let us know how you do.
Okay, I read it. Now I'll let you know that what would be so awful about 100% toll roads is everything.
It comes down to this statement fromt he article, popular among ideologues: Profit management beats government management every time. That is a fact claim, stated without evidence, actually stated contrary to evidence. It would be a winning argument if it were true, but it's not, so it's a losing argument.
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If it can be heard, it can be pirated, no exceptions. It is a fool's errand to try to make a sound un-pirateable.
I'll bet Bono his fortune against my fortune that whatever he comes up with can, in fact, be pirated. Heck, I'll even bet him that it will be widely pirated within one week of its release.
Call me, Bono. My riches could be yours if you are as smart as you say.
Yeah WV is a good way to teach American history. I love that they split off from Virginia so that they could remain in the union, and now 150 years later they are the country's third or fourth most backward state. They really really stagnated after the civil war. It might be America's saddest state.
Kanuckistan? That's Canada, right?
Canada isn't a country. It became mostly a country in the 1980s but in my not-so-humble opinion, no country is a real country if they use the leader of some other country as their head of state.
You are a subject of the Brits so long as you put the Queen on your money and let her roll around in your lands acting as though she owns the place -- which she does.
By a thread, Canada isn't a country. Cut that last thread and you can finally be a real country.
I'll make you a thirty-year thousand-dollar bet that that doesn't happen. I'll give you 3:2 odds, even. Seriously, put up or shut up.
The Nazi party killed more than a million homosexuals. It's hard to imagine them "supporting gay marriage" when they made being gay a capital crime.
It's hard to believe you wrote all of that (which is more or less reasonable in my opinion, so I have no complaints about that) without mentioning the fact that the UK is a theocratic monarchy.
Theocracy is the most offensive aspect, in my opinion, but monarchy is almost as offensive. Well, gosh maybe monarchy is more offensive. It's hard to decide.
But either of those is vastly more offensive than the Scottish complaint of unbalanced federalism. Hey, unbalanced federalism is a problem, but compared to theocracy and monarchy it's not.
I tried to think of something I care less about in a video game than "level of physics sophistication", and I couldn't think of anything.
Then I tried to think of something I care less about in a video game than "level of 3d graphics" and I thought of one thing: level of physics sophistication.
Yeah, totally, because the problem with these products is the names used to sell them.
Totally.
"If China gets the base built, it's really hard to sink an Island."
Tell that to the Bikini Atoll!
No, that's not the joke. The joke is that some Asian names overlap with genitalia slang in English, and genitalia puns are funny. Most pairs of languages have such humorous overlaps.
Gosh I hate having to explain jokes, it really ruins the sense.
Yeah I agree. This seems like unremarkable good detective work. Well done, coppers, you caught a criminal.
Whether we need to change the law is a separate question to whether this guy broke it.
You asshat troll. Juries DO THINK THIS WAY which is why they are "shown the proof and if there is proof then the jury considers him not looking good."
That exists.
"How exactly we've created a judicial system with arbitrary power like that is the problem."
It's not arbitrary, and we did it with democracy.
Yeah, and also at Cliven Bundy's ranch.
"Kind of hard to claim its libertarian if you can be put to death for rejecting Islam."
That's the free market at work.
You are interpreting it to mean the opposite of what it means. If science says "outer space is above the clouds", this bill would prevent you from saying so, because it would "prohibit religious interpretation of scientific facts to mean that heaven is not above the clouds".
I prefer to call it an invention rather than a discovery. It gives more credit to the people who developed it. Either way, I agree, there is literally no other thing that comes close to having the positive impact of the scientific method.
Don't forget how the Texas Republicans opposed the teaching of critical thinking strongly enough to actually put it into their party platform.
We can't read minds but we can read the private letters and journals of scientists past and compare those writings to their public writings. The private writings of Newton, for instance, show that he was ambivalent and conflicted about the existence of a god -- not that he had decided there were no gods, but that he wasn't at all sure. So that's one example. Compare him to Kepler who almost surely believed in the personal deity described by the Catholic church.
But the beliefs of Newton and Kepler don't really matter. They could have been wrong. What matters is the best evidence and deduction we have and can do today.
That's right. Those early scientists were convinced that by studying the natural world they would validate their religious beliefs. They were wrong about that and later scientists did the honest thing by giving up on that invalid hypothesis and following the evidence.
Early scientists thought they could build telescopes and look up at heaven, but it turned out that heaven wasn't up there. They thought they'd look through microscopes and see angels dancing on pins, but it turned out there were no angels on the pins. They thought they would be able to calculate the movement of the sun around the earth, but it turned out they weren't able to do that. They thought they would inspect a mustard seed and determine that a godly force caused it to transform into a mustard bush, but that didn't turn out to be how it works. They thought that they would inspect living bodies and find that they were built of different kinds of matter than nonliving things, but no, that wasn't so.
Therewith, science and scientists distinguished themselves from religion by giving up on ideas that were wrong.
Still using Imperial measurements?
Yep. And we will until something better comes along. It might be similar to the metric system but with units of useful size, units of equal ratio (cf. the kilogram as a base unit), and a unit ratio of a useful number (say, maybe 12, instead of 10). Get to work on that and let us know how you do.
Okay, I read it. Now I'll let you know that what would be so awful about 100% toll roads is everything.
It comes down to this statement fromt he article, popular among ideologues: Profit management beats government management every time. That is a fact claim, stated without evidence, actually stated contrary to evidence. It would be a winning argument if it were true, but it's not, so it's a losing argument.
"so what are you saying?"
I'm saying what I said.
"libertarians demand ideological purity and 'progressives' and neocons do not?"
Nope, I didn't say that.
"This society could use some libertarianism to counter the steady march towards statism that's been happening."
Nope, I didn't say that either.