Not unreasonable at all. I reached full height 187cm (a hair under 6'2) at age 15, when I was at school I was always one of the tallest. Now only a generation later, I am constantly dwarfed by local high school kids.
And as an avid rugby player, the best team in the world 25 years ago was a full 5kg lighter and 2.5cm shorter per player than today. And this trend is consistent over the last 100 years (4 generations). This is more nutrition and training rather than evolution, but extrapolate that growth over 20 generations and you easily match the same result as the lizards.
Yes, I have experienced them first hand, under socialism, under the European welfare state, and finally coming as an immigrant to the US and working my way up.
So you agree, the US has problems. How many of those constraints have you experienced in Australia?
So tell me: what's your experience of "socio-economic constraints" based on?
The ability to read. Your claim that Australia is more socio-economically constrained than the US is plainly false as plenty of OECD reports will show. This says it's nearly twice as constrained. Your claim is bunk.
The word "God" is _in_ the Declaration of Independence, and so is the word "Creator" (Read the first 2 paragraphs).
Yeah I know. did you read my reply? That's why I said "as little as possible" instead of "zero".
As with the person I responded to, you are not even attempting to look at facts.
Yeah I did, you just didn't read them.
The words are not "religious rhetoric" when used as we see in both the Declaration of Independence and the Pledge of Allegiance,
Yeah I know. I'll rephrase my comment since you seem to have completely missed it the first time. Back in the 18th century, everyone believed in boogeymen, and couldn't comprehend a reality in which they didn't actually exist. The founding fathers, being visionary for their time realised that religion was mostly bunk and didn't want that claptrap polluting their work. Just like a modern President, failing to mention God will get you in trouble so they paid lip service to it to avoid controversy.
TLDR: There is no superman in that lives in the sky, all the smart people in the last 500 years know this, but have struggled with how to confront a great unwashed who simply can't accept that fact.
Theophobia is an unreasonable fear of Religion...
Yeah I knew that, my point was did you just make that word up? Do you have a word for fear of accepting reality? I do, it's called religion...
Socio-economic constraints - do you even know what those words mean?
Sure we don't have the same freedoms to go around shooting our school friends in the face, but if there's one thing we have right here it's fucking socio-economics.
Your Theophobia is showing. The word "God" would not have bothered the founding fathers.
I disagree. The founding fathers went to great lengths to ensure the constitution and Declaration of Independence contained as little religious rhetoric as possible. Sure it's in there, but for the religious climate of the time it was about as Richard Dawkins as you could get.
And wtf is "Theophobia"? I knew a guy called Theo once, he was a real dick...
When you say "we" are you including these people:
http://news.nationalgeographic...
I've traveled a fair bit, IMO the US has the most ignorance towards anything outside it's borders than any other country I've been to.
Every Jap car I've had (dozens over the last couple of decades) has the indicator on the right.
I used to have a Ford (UK), BMW and Jeep all which had the indicator on the left.
The flat look scales easier between various screen sizes. By just having a big monochrome square, it doesn't look any different whether on a 4" screen or 30".
You've clearly never managed a fleet of PCs. As much as Windows sucks, it's the only product out there with a decent integration of desktop, endpoint management, directory services and back office apps. Until Linux or Apple get into that space, Windows will always dominate the corporate market.
Worst thing was after XP, the Windows Control Panel was displayed in groups which made everything hard to find, or you had the option to display by icons which sorts everything into columns. This would be great except instead of ordering in alphabetical order down the column it displays across, so that when you resize the window everything moves around.
The human eye is used to scanning down a list in order, not across. Whoever decided this was the best way needs to be fired.
Win2012 is designed to run in Core mode and Administered remotely with Powershell. All the GUI fluff is just to keep the backward compatibility/common interface crowd happy.
Are non-white males not men? That's pretty racist. As is bringing up skin colour for no reason.
It wasn't for no reason. It was an attempted demonstration that not too long ago, white men thought they were the only people that counted. Just like how women were treated like second class humans, so were ethnic minorities. If it sounds racist, it's because those times were racist. That was exactly the point I was trying to make.
Nomadic tribes still have superfluous versions of luxury such as colourful jewellery, makeup or feathers. All worthless but their scarcity make the owner feel like they has something over their peers.
Luxury is no longer about any values other than exclusivity where excluding the majority from it and being able to pose with it, is what it really is all about.
You might have everything *you* need, but the the other 7 billion people out there might not necessarily have the same needs as you.
Me for example, I like having a touch screen tablet for the train, then a USB connection to a docking station with dual 24" screens and full PC capability in the office.
Even the Apple fanboys in our workplace have traded their iPads for Macbooks because the iPad is mostly useless for most people in a productivity setting.
Are these the same people that recommend timber volume knobs, and $1000 speaker cables?
Bose make decent products, somewhere above consumer crap but below high end like Rotel, KEF, Cambridge etc Much like Apple really, it is expensive but it is half decent. Beats however is just crap...
I'm old enough to remember when he/his/him was ok to use in a sentence, and that is not how I remember it. Back in the day men did everything, so naturally he/his/him would be used with verbs. As non-white males became empowered, it no longer made sense to imply only men were doing things. We've moved on since those days and our language reflects that progress.
Actually, I would've thought it quite simple to add an Ice fee to the ticket price and just give out ice for free during the event.
Ice supplier still gets paid, and the illusion of free ice keeps everyone happy.
I agree, freedom from the fear of being shot at any given time. I think you've confused freedom with self-interest. It's ok it's a common mistake in the US, you throw that word around like some sort of immunity device to do whatever you feel like doing. Probably to do with your previous administration and the media brain-washing that is so prevalent in your country. AMERICA Fuck Yeah! Coming again to save the mother fucking day yeah!
Switzerland has lots of guns, but lots of gun controls and regulations too, along with complusory military training (real training, not that yee haa we're gonna kick your ass GI Joe shit they teach you in the US). They also have much better health and education standards.
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Not unreasonable at all. I reached full height 187cm (a hair under 6'2) at age 15, when I was at school I was always one of the tallest. Now only a generation later, I am constantly dwarfed by local high school kids.
And as an avid rugby player, the best team in the world 25 years ago was a full 5kg lighter and 2.5cm shorter per player than today. And this trend is consistent over the last 100 years (4 generations). This is more nutrition and training rather than evolution, but extrapolate that growth over 20 generations and you easily match the same result as the lizards.
Yes, I have experienced them first hand, under socialism, under the European welfare state, and finally coming as an immigrant to the US and working my way up.
So you agree, the US has problems. How many of those constraints have you experienced in Australia?
So tell me: what's your experience of "socio-economic constraints" based on?
The ability to read. Your claim that Australia is more socio-economically constrained than the US is plainly false as plenty of OECD reports will show. This says it's nearly twice as constrained. Your claim is bunk.
The word "God" is _in_ the Declaration of Independence, and so is the word "Creator" (Read the first 2 paragraphs).
Yeah I know. did you read my reply? That's why I said "as little as possible" instead of "zero".
As with the person I responded to, you are not even attempting to look at facts.
Yeah I did, you just didn't read them.
The words are not "religious rhetoric" when used as we see in both the Declaration of Independence and the Pledge of Allegiance,
Yeah I know. I'll rephrase my comment since you seem to have completely missed it the first time. Back in the 18th century, everyone believed in boogeymen, and couldn't comprehend a reality in which they didn't actually exist. The founding fathers, being visionary for their time realised that religion was mostly bunk and didn't want that claptrap polluting their work. Just like a modern President, failing to mention God will get you in trouble so they paid lip service to it to avoid controversy.
TLDR: There is no superman in that lives in the sky, all the smart people in the last 500 years know this, but have struggled with how to confront a great unwashed who simply can't accept that fact.
Theophobia is an unreasonable fear of Religion...
Yeah I knew that, my point was did you just make that word up? Do you have a word for fear of accepting reality? I do, it's called religion...
You know that American history goes back prior to WW2 right?
Socio-economic constraints - do you even know what those words mean? Sure we don't have the same freedoms to go around shooting our school friends in the face, but if there's one thing we have right here it's fucking socio-economics.
Your Theophobia is showing. The word "God" would not have bothered the founding fathers.
I disagree. The founding fathers went to great lengths to ensure the constitution and Declaration of Independence contained as little religious rhetoric as possible. Sure it's in there, but for the religious climate of the time it was about as Richard Dawkins as you could get. And wtf is "Theophobia"? I knew a guy called Theo once, he was a real dick...
When you say "we" are you including these people: http://news.nationalgeographic... I've traveled a fair bit, IMO the US has the most ignorance towards anything outside it's borders than any other country I've been to.
Every Jap car I've had (dozens over the last couple of decades) has the indicator on the right. I used to have a Ford (UK), BMW and Jeep all which had the indicator on the left.
The flat look scales easier between various screen sizes. By just having a big monochrome square, it doesn't look any different whether on a 4" screen or 30".
You've clearly never managed a fleet of PCs. As much as Windows sucks, it's the only product out there with a decent integration of desktop, endpoint management, directory services and back office apps. Until Linux or Apple get into that space, Windows will always dominate the corporate market.
Worst thing was after XP, the Windows Control Panel was displayed in groups which made everything hard to find, or you had the option to display by icons which sorts everything into columns. This would be great except instead of ordering in alphabetical order down the column it displays across, so that when you resize the window everything moves around. The human eye is used to scanning down a list in order, not across. Whoever decided this was the best way needs to be fired.
European cars are opposite to Japanese. Here in Australia most of our cars are Japanese or European so we learn to deal with both.
Win2012 is designed to run in Core mode and Administered remotely with Powershell. All the GUI fluff is just to keep the backward compatibility/common interface crowd happy.
Are non-white males not men? That's pretty racist. As is bringing up skin colour for no reason.
It wasn't for no reason. It was an attempted demonstration that not too long ago, white men thought they were the only people that counted. Just like how women were treated like second class humans, so were ethnic minorities. If it sounds racist, it's because those times were racist. That was exactly the point I was trying to make.
Nomadic tribes still have superfluous versions of luxury such as colourful jewellery, makeup or feathers. All worthless but their scarcity make the owner feel like they has something over their peers.
Luxury is no longer about any values other than exclusivity where excluding the majority from it and being able to pose with it, is what it really is all about.
And when was luxury ever not like this?
You might have everything *you* need, but the the other 7 billion people out there might not necessarily have the same needs as you. Me for example, I like having a touch screen tablet for the train, then a USB connection to a docking station with dual 24" screens and full PC capability in the office. Even the Apple fanboys in our workplace have traded their iPads for Macbooks because the iPad is mostly useless for most people in a productivity setting.
I'm not hating... check the reviews.
Are these the same people that recommend timber volume knobs, and $1000 speaker cables? Bose make decent products, somewhere above consumer crap but below high end like Rotel, KEF, Cambridge etc Much like Apple really, it is expensive but it is half decent. Beats however is just crap...
I'm old enough to remember when he/his/him was ok to use in a sentence, and that is not how I remember it. Back in the day men did everything, so naturally he/his/him would be used with verbs. As non-white males became empowered, it no longer made sense to imply only men were doing things. We've moved on since those days and our language reflects that progress.
Actually, I would've thought it quite simple to add an Ice fee to the ticket price and just give out ice for free during the event. Ice supplier still gets paid, and the illusion of free ice keeps everyone happy.
I just came here to figure out what the hell this story was about only to find everyone else is in the same boat (pun not intended)...
Mr Asimov seemed to only be aware of 50% of the population...
I agree, freedom from the fear of being shot at any given time. I think you've confused freedom with self-interest. It's ok it's a common mistake in the US, you throw that word around like some sort of immunity device to do whatever you feel like doing. Probably to do with your previous administration and the media brain-washing that is so prevalent in your country. AMERICA Fuck Yeah! Coming again to save the mother fucking day yeah!
Switzerland has lots of guns, but lots of gun controls and regulations too, along with complusory military training (real training, not that yee haa we're gonna kick your ass GI Joe shit they teach you in the US). They also have much better health and education standards.
Hardly what I'd call diligent :)
No, but I'm not defending those people either. See how that works?