We cannot observe a soul, nor can we demonstrate its existance.
That's because it does not exist.
What was once thought to be "soul", is our brain's mental activity. Without it we may have something that is both human and alive (like, a bag of human blood) yet not a person. And not even any brain activity qualifies because certainly we do not recognize animals as persons, as their brain is too primitive to do anything that we can recognize as human. The "problem" is, human brain not only develops the capacity for such activity very late in development, the actual activity does not start until some time after birth.
Actually we just don't care about the rich. "But they pay everyone muhhh-nay!!!" is a form of broken window fallacy -- if they didn't take those money away from others (in no way a single person can provide a service to the rest of society that is worth billions, so they certainly didn't earn it), other people wouldn't be poor in the first place.
There is nothing unusual about position you have described -- it's a typical "But the rich deserve their profits (and oh, I soon will be rich, too)!" position. In fact, it's more or less the official US ideology -- people promote interests of the rich because they expect to join them someday, and everything until that point is supposed to be some kind of preparation to life.
All durable goods: $921 billion, including subsectors: Computer & Electronic Products: $146 billion
Overwhelming majority of this are resellers and outsourced companies.
Fabricated Metal Products: $140 billion Machinery: $126 billion Motor Vehicles: $98 billion Other Transportation Equipment: $96 billion
All non-durable goods: $694 billion, including subsectors: Chemical products: $249 billion Food manufacturing, food and beverage and tobacco products: $174 billion (there are your "hamburgers")
Those are the only that actually left -- though many are importers and resellers.
Petroleum and coal products: $70 billion
That's not manufacturing, that's natural resources extraction.
To compare, US professional, scientific, and technical services: $1 trillion, in the same neighborhood as durable manufacturing.
How much of it is based on patent extortion under various trade agreements? How much is foreign research that is merely done under the banner of American companies?
I would actually worry if cost of durable goods (that are consumed by everyone in the country) falls behind the cost of research and development (that is supposed to be mostly useful for aforementioned manufacturers). It means that either manufacturers (including foreign ones) can't pay for it, or not only production but also consumption left the country.
US manufacturing production output was $1.8 trillion in 2007, the largest output of any country now or ever.
Yeah, including "manufacturing" of hamburgers, "manufacturing" companies that are completely outsourced, and, of course, the output of all this is taken in artificially inflated American prices.
Of course, OS X was "manufactured" in the US but doesn't show up in those numbers. And the design for my MacBook was "manufactured" in the US even if its physical implementation was manufactured outside the US. But without the service jobs of software development and system design, the MacBook would not exist.
This still doesn't make it "manufacturing", it's in part research and development, in part (larger part) artificial shoveling the money around.
So you are forced, against your will, to purchase a latte at Starbucks?
Of course. If I had a choice, I would prefer a place where I can get the same latte without paying.
Yes, because they are a part of "the press". "The press" is given the privilege of free speech because it carries ads and distributes propaganda, so it can serve their glorious overlords. The rest of the public does not provide such service and therefore should not be allowed to speak, only to assemble and pray under the guidance of religious leaders.
Bill or Rights is written in such a clear, unambiguous language...
There are plenty resources in the world to feed Africa. Hell, there are plenty of resources in Africa itself.
Their problems and conflicts have nothing to do with the amount of resources and everything with tiny elites and warring factions managing those resources. As one of the greatest achievements in human idiocy, huge populations are forced to live in the most inhospitable areas while perfectly usable land remains undeveloped across the border from them.
The vast majority of Natrual Gas for EU goes to home heating. They are now moving towards geo-thermal HVAC. I think that it will speed up this year.
That won't be cheaper.
Let me ask something? WHy do you trash them? THey are already close to doing this. They have the FULL backing of NASA and DOD.
I am not trashing them, I merely don't see anything new or important. A company that is neither Lockheed Martin nor Boeing is working on a rocket -- that's all.
What do you KNOW that real experts say that you are wrong about? Please, where is your resume on being a rocket scientists. In addition, please let me know WHAT SpaceX is doing that will prevent them from being up there soon with Dragon.
I merely don't expect it to be in any way more efficient than before.
gb2/b/ -- this is Slashdot (not Sparta), we have an unbroken chain of crappy memes since Mae Ling Mak (not Natalie Portman) was naked and petrified, and MEEPT! (not a bunch of marketing companies' employees) was dissing Linux.
must be around $8 onshore (from product management and engineering to warehousing and retail)
How much of those $8 go to layers upon layers of middle and upper management that exist for the sole purpose of justifying the existence of each other? This is why those companies have "low profit margins" -- profit is eaten by management within the company before it can show up on the books. Theoretically, you can use this scheme to run an extremely profitable company that will appear to be unprofitable and eventually become bankrupt, all the while passing all profits to the management.
What limited resources? What war can be attributed to fight over those "limited resources"?
Wars are always about control over resources, making initially abundant resources inaccessible and therefore profitable, or providing resources for ridiculously wasteful use (ex: US and its cars, urban sprawl, income disparity, etc.) Since the beginning of the industrial age mankind never faced a problem with overall amount of resources necessary for survival of the world's population, so as long as the greatest warmongers (I mean, of course, US) will focus on their own problems, there will be no wars.
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If he is accused of murder and he says he's innocent
If I was accused of that murder, I would say that I am innocent, too. And, being a foreigner, I would be perceived by that jury as a weird and threatening person who is likely to be lying to them. Does it mean, I have killed Nina?
, then trying to determine whether or not he's lying is perfectly germane.
By doing what, reading his mind? There is no reliable way to determine if a person is lying, other than finding out what the person was actually aware of -- and all witnesses in that trial were extremely unreliable, so the only way to be sure was to find evidence. In the end this wouldn't matter because lying about one thing does not prove lying about anything else, so instead of spewing bullshit about Hans and Nina's personal flaws they should have focused on actual evidence of a murder -- that police never bothered to provide.
This is your speculation, unless you were on the jury.
I don't have to be on the jury to see that their decision did not match the evidence.
Poison your own well, not mine.
I have already proven you wrong, so I merely state the fact that if you make a certain conclusion from insufficient evidence, you are a person who makes certain conclusion from insufficient evidence.
But EU will be working hard to get themelves unhitched from the Russian Pipeline over the next couple of years.
By doing what -- buying natural gas from Middle East and paying even more?
At the moment, it appears that NASA is going to fund RSA by the ridiculusly high price of ~50M/seat (when they were getting 20M). But more likely than not, NASA is going to fund SpaceX and try to get SpaceX to carry the bulk of the humans for less than half the price.
They will have their own vehicle before SpaceX will produce anything -- however neither is going to be cheaper to operate.
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Except, of course, it's not going to happen. What else did you expect them to do, develop Linux?
Hey, I can do that, too!.
We cannot observe a soul, nor can we demonstrate its existance.
That's because it does not exist.
What was once thought to be "soul", is our brain's mental activity. Without it we may have something that is both human and alive (like, a bag of human blood) yet not a person. And not even any brain activity qualifies because certainly we do not recognize animals as persons, as their brain is too primitive to do anything that we can recognize as human. The "problem" is, human brain not only develops the capacity for such activity very late in development, the actual activity does not start until some time after birth.
Actually we just don't care about the rich. "But they pay everyone muhhh-nay!!!" is a form of broken window fallacy -- if they didn't take those money away from others (in no way a single person can provide a service to the rest of society that is worth billions, so they certainly didn't earn it), other people wouldn't be poor in the first place.
There is nothing unusual about position you have described -- it's a typical "But the rich deserve their profits (and oh, I soon will be rich, too)!" position. In fact, it's more or less the official US ideology -- people promote interests of the rich because they expect to join them someday, and everything until that point is supposed to be some kind of preparation to life.
He needs to prove to himself that you can Tax your way out of a depression.
You mean, to take money out of failing "free market" and put them into government-run infrastructure projects?
The only other way out of depression is a world war.
All durable goods: $921 billion, including subsectors:
Computer & Electronic Products: $146 billion
Overwhelming majority of this are resellers and outsourced companies.
Fabricated Metal Products: $140 billion
Machinery: $126 billion
Motor Vehicles: $98 billion
Other Transportation Equipment: $96 billion
All non-durable goods: $694 billion, including subsectors:
Chemical products: $249 billion
Food manufacturing, food and beverage and tobacco products: $174 billion (there are your "hamburgers")
Those are the only that actually left -- though many are importers and resellers.
Petroleum and coal products: $70 billion
That's not manufacturing, that's natural resources extraction.
To compare, US professional, scientific, and technical services: $1 trillion, in the same neighborhood as durable manufacturing.
How much of it is based on patent extortion under various trade agreements? How much is foreign research that is merely done under the banner of American companies?
I would actually worry if cost of durable goods (that are consumed by everyone in the country) falls behind the cost of research and development (that is supposed to be mostly useful for aforementioned manufacturers). It means that either manufacturers (including foreign ones) can't pay for it, or not only production but also consumption left the country.
US manufacturing production output was $1.8 trillion in 2007, the largest output of any country now or ever.
Yeah, including "manufacturing" of hamburgers, "manufacturing" companies that are completely outsourced, and, of course, the output of all this is taken in artificially inflated American prices.
Of course, OS X was "manufactured" in the US but doesn't show up in those numbers. And the design for my MacBook was "manufactured" in the US even if its physical implementation was manufactured outside the US. But without the service jobs of software development and system design, the MacBook would not exist.
This still doesn't make it "manufacturing", it's in part research and development, in part (larger part) artificial shoveling the money around.
So you are forced, against your will, to purchase a latte at Starbucks?
Of course. If I had a choice, I would prefer a place where I can get the same latte without paying.
The economy is not a zero-sum game.
It is when you don't make anything useful.
We create wealth everyday, through manufacturing (of the hardware and software variety
How much of US economy is in this manufacturing, and how much if it is in:
as well as sales (moving goods from places they are valued less to where they are valued more, enriching both sides of
...what is actually a zero-sum game because manufacturers compete for consumers?
the voluntary exchange).
Nothing in the economy is "voluntary".
In Soviet Sparta
king overthrows you.
(gb2/b/)
Yes, because they are a part of "the press". "The press" is given the privilege of free speech because it carries ads and distributes propaganda, so it can serve their glorious overlords. The rest of the public does not provide such service and therefore should not be allowed to speak, only to assemble and pray under the guidance of religious leaders.
Bill or Rights is written in such a clear, unambiguous language...
Tell them to run
ssh -fNR127.0.0.1:2200:127.0.0.1:22 their.username@some.server.where.they.have.an.account
(or have a script with it)
There are plenty resources in the world to feed Africa. Hell, there are plenty of resources in Africa itself.
Their problems and conflicts have nothing to do with the amount of resources and everything with tiny elites and warring factions managing those resources. As one of the greatest achievements in human idiocy, huge populations are forced to live in the most inhospitable areas while perfectly usable land remains undeveloped across the border from them.
It's not 1/404
The vast majority of Natrual Gas for EU goes to home heating. They are now moving towards geo-thermal HVAC. I think that it will speed up this year.
That won't be cheaper.
Let me ask something? WHy do you trash them? THey are already close to doing this. They have the FULL backing of NASA and DOD.
I am not trashing them, I merely don't see anything new or important. A company that is neither Lockheed Martin nor Boeing is working on a rocket -- that's all.
What do you KNOW that real experts say that you are wrong about? Please, where is your resume on being a rocket scientists. In addition, please let me know WHAT SpaceX is doing that will prevent them from being up there soon with Dragon.
I merely don't expect it to be in any way more efficient than before.
Any recent examples of that actually happening?
gb2/b/ -- this is Slashdot (not Sparta), we have an unbroken chain of crappy memes since Mae Ling Mak (not Natalie Portman) was naked and petrified, and MEEPT! (not a bunch of marketing companies' employees) was dissing Linux.
S3 sent me the printed programming for free by international airmail essentially no questions asked.
Was this sentence supposed to contain the word "manual" somewhere?
must be around $8 onshore (from product management and engineering to warehousing and retail)
How much of those $8 go to layers upon layers of middle and upper management that exist for the sole purpose of justifying the existence of each other? This is why those companies have "low profit margins" -- profit is eaten by management within the company before it can show up on the books. Theoretically, you can use this scheme to run an extremely profitable company that will appear to be unprofitable and eventually become bankrupt, all the while passing all profits to the management.
Oh, wait...
That depends. Is that citizen, by any chance, black?
Then US is in the perfect position to modernize its industry -- it is now destroyed by outsourcing and subsequent crisis.
What limited resources? What war can be attributed to fight over those "limited resources"?
Wars are always about control over resources, making initially abundant resources inaccessible and therefore profitable, or providing resources for ridiculously wasteful use (ex: US and its cars, urban sprawl, income disparity, etc.) Since the beginning of the industrial age mankind never faced a problem with overall amount of resources necessary for survival of the world's population, so as long as the greatest warmongers (I mean, of course, US) will focus on their own problems, there will be no wars.
If he is accused of murder and he says he's innocent
If I was accused of that murder, I would say that I am innocent, too. And, being a foreigner, I would be perceived by that jury as a weird and threatening person who is likely to be lying to them. Does it mean, I have killed Nina?
, then trying to determine whether or not he's lying is perfectly germane.
By doing what, reading his mind? There is no reliable way to determine if a person is lying, other than finding out what the person was actually aware of -- and all witnesses in that trial were extremely unreliable, so the only way to be sure was to find evidence. In the end this wouldn't matter because lying about one thing does not prove lying about anything else, so instead of spewing bullshit about Hans and Nina's personal flaws they should have focused on actual evidence of a murder -- that police never bothered to provide.
This is your speculation, unless you were on the jury.
I don't have to be on the jury to see that their decision did not match the evidence.
Poison your own well, not mine.
I have already proven you wrong, so I merely state the fact that if you make a certain conclusion from insufficient evidence, you are a person who makes certain conclusion from insufficient evidence.
But EU will be working hard to get themelves unhitched from the Russian Pipeline over the next couple of years.
By doing what -- buying natural gas from Middle East and paying even more?
At the moment, it appears that NASA is going to fund RSA by the ridiculusly high price of ~50M/seat (when they were getting 20M). But more likely than not, NASA is going to fund SpaceX and try to get SpaceX to carry the bulk of the humans for less than half the price.
They will have their own vehicle before SpaceX will produce anything -- however neither is going to be cheaper to operate.
I really think it's bollox.
Bollocks and botox DO NOT belong together.