Here in New York, despite regular visits by the exterminator, I still have cockroaches now and then. Sure, most of them are tiny and probably never grow to adulthood. I only see a few adult ones a year, but they are there.
As has been stated before, it is a logical impossibility to prove a negative.
you forgot to say "unrestricted" negative. I can prove you don't exist in my room right now. I can't prove that you don't exist anywhere in the universe.
Under different circumstances, your statement would probably be true.
The difference is the entire state of Israel is based upon righting the wrong of Emperor Titus' decision to raze the city of Jerusalem and destroy the state of Judea nearly 2000 years ago. The Kingdom of Israel was destroyed by the Assyrians hundreds of years before that.
When it comes to Israel, ancient history is far more important than you seem to realize.
u.s., u.k., canada and australia are all at the peak of record real estate market highs...so currently, real estate is an extremely overvalued asset, and, by all knowledgable assessment, is set to decline over the coming years.
This is a very ignorant statement, and I don't quite understand why you lumped together all the anglo countries. Real Estate in Germany isn't exactly dirt cheap, and Moscow has some of the highest prices in the world, on par with London and New York.
the UK in particular is NOT going to see a drop in value, until substantial high density multifamily housing is constructed. Why? Its a small country with a lot of people. The supply of land is very finite, and thus if you want a single family detached house, you are going to have to pay for it.
Australia, on the other hand, is a totally different story. Real Estate there is nothing like the US or UK. Sydney is dirt cheap compared to those cities.
The apartment I rent, would be conservatively valued at 600,000 in the current market (similar one just went for that in the same block). I pay $300 per week rent. Current interest rates are approx 7% and expected to rise (but I won't take that into account in these calculations), and the value of the investment is expected to fall by as much as 10% over the coming year.
You clearly have no understanding of finance. $1200 a month will only cover a $180,000 loan. For a $600,000 home, with 20% down and a 30 year mortgage, at the 7% interest rate you specify, your monthly payments will be more like $3,200. Unless you are living someplace with rent control laws, your example is total bullshit. If you ARE taking advantage of rent control, this entire discussion is bullshit...
Also, if the residential real estate market declines by 10% in the next year, real estate is going to be the least of your concerns. That is the stuff depressions are made up of. The decline in values from 1929-1930 wasn't even that steap.
Lets do some maths:
Apparently you aren't using a financial calculator for this.
Approximate interest on purchase of $600,000 for one year -- $42,000 (now at this point, I still don't own any equity, I've just paid the bank).
So you are saying you found a bank that gave you a $600K loan with no money down? What fantasy world are you living in? You also failed to take into account your $3,200 per month loan payments! Oh wait you didn't calculate that properly.
Lets be generous and say that my investment only looses 5% over the next year, that's another $30,000. So, if I have to liquidate at the end of the year, I'm down $72K.
And that's what this is all based on, your unfounded belief RE will decline in value over time.
1998? I would say most news organizations had decent websites since then. Hell, I have been using the New York Times website since 1995, and still use the same login to boot.
The web was quite mature by 1998 and I haven't noticed much innovation since then.
the longer people perceive the government is illigitmate and ineffectual, the closer we get to civil war. Personally, I really look forward to an all out conflict.
There is one thing America needs, and its more violence and bloodshed. The gods of war have been put aside for decades, peace and prosperity have gone on for too long. America is like an overripe fruit at the end of the harvest season, rotting with excessive sweetness.
I take a slightly different view; back when I started dealing with PC hardware in '95, much of the on-board hardware was "dog poo" and was also poorly supported by Linux.
Hahahhahaha, I am on the floor, laughing my ass off! You are so fucking funnnnyyyy!! That canadian humor is going to go down in history with the likes of Aristophanes! Truly history in the making!
Who ever thought one could come up with such a clever response to an obviously insulting rhetorical question? Now, for all time to come, brilliant sophists around the world can follow your lead, you master of sardonic whit! We stupid Americans, we simply bow before your greatness, humbled to the core of our pitiful souls.
Canada and the US export a substantial majority of their grain to the rest of the world, something like 90%. I don't think it will affect the US or Europe.
Certainly large numbers of people will die in the turd world, but who cares what happens to them. The fewer there are of them, the better.
Dude, I live on St-Catherine street, and you have no clue what the hell you are talking about. It is the center of downtown Montreal, and it is EXTREMLY safe.
I realize it is a north south artery, but in the context of the message I was responding to, we are talking about the latin quarter, ie St Catherine and St Denis. That is not quite the center of downtown montreal.
Just so you know, after 2am there are police cars EVERYWHERE patrolling on and around St-Catherine.
I'm not saying they aren't there. I am saying they are pussies and ineffectual. It is a travesty they are even referred to as police officers.
The best parts of it are the strip bars. Don't know what it's like now but 20 years ago we used to go up there just to spend the evening at Jason's or the Latin Quarter because the women were incredibly naked and incredibly beautiful and the exchage rate made it cheaper per dance or drink than going to an american bar right across the border. Walk down the street at 2AM and you could find old people out strolling or eating at a sidewalk cafe. And they have that great healthcare system and a penal system that seems to genuinely be about reform rather than revenge.
Wow, this post is so contrary to reality on so many levels.
Are you talking about the latin quarter in Montreal? Rue St. Catherine? If sooo........
The strip clubs suck. They are filled with Arabs and other "refugees" who spend their entire lives lusting after white women. The strippers are either disgusting refugees or they are poor girls from the countryside forced to sell their bodies because the canadian and quebec economy is fscked.
And old people at 2am?? Yeah right, more like bikers, prostitutes, and drug dealers. St. Catherine Street is probably the most openly criminal city in North America north of the Rio Grande.
And the healthcare system... All I can say is, yeah whatever. That's why so many canadians have supplemental insurance and use it in the US.
And the penal system. It is outright hillarious. Go to Montreal. It is today one of the most dangerous cities out there. The Montreal police are a joke.
I am from New York, I haven't seen a prostitute on the street in over a decade. I haven't seen open drug dealing in the same amount of time. In montreal I get HARASSED by prostitutes. I've heard drug dealers give out price lists for different quantities of coke and heroin. Its crazy!
AND the exchange rate is not that great anymore. I predict MOntreal tourism is going to collapse in the next few years.
Actually third degree burns aren't painful at all. One of the defining characteristics between 2nd and 3rd degree burns is that the nerve endings are destroyed in 3rd degree burns, so that you feel no pain.
Sunburn is an example of a 1st degree burn. 2nd and 3rd degree burns are basically anything worse. And as far as the coffee is concerned, it has the same boiling point as water. I don't know how you make your coffee, but I use boiling water. It really does brew the best coffee. In fact, every coffee house I have ever been to uses boiling water.
The goal of these companies is not to make money through cash flows over time, but to innovate enough so that a major network purchases them. Thus, all their profit is going to come from one network, at one time in the future.
One simple definition of nationalism is the glorification of a nation above all else.
While I understand what you are saying because I am very familiar with this subject, I hope you realize this is not a definition of anything. The word that requires clarification here is "nation".
Trying to impose a standard of human rights is totally orthogonal to whether it is done in a nationalistic spirit or not.
"Human Rights" applies to all humans. It is not British Rights. or German Rights. It is a concept that came about due to internationalist political thought, that the whole of the humanity is composed of equals and thus they should have identical rights. This is incompatible with nationalism.
Or even whether the intentions are good or not, as exemplified by the colonial politics of the european countries throughout the 19th and early 20th century. (This was all done under the guise of bringing civilisation to conquered "savages")
But you are failing to see how that is an extension of normal human behavior. It is the course of history that more advanced, discplined tribes displace the weaker, less advanced ones. In time, these tribes became cities, and eventually they became nations. Who cares what the reasoning is. Nationalism is the modern form of tribal "us versus them".
I guess it's hard to see when you are bathed in it, but the profusion of symbols (colors, flags) also play a big role in the infusion of the "nation" everywhere.
This, I think shows you have an intellectual understanding of historical nationalism but not an aesthetic understanding. Nationalism is about ideals which unify a particular group of people in opposition to their competitors. The means of expressing (or reinforcing as the case may be) that unity is wholly secondary to the ideal itself. Jews for instance are the most successful nation in history, yet they did not use any flags until 50 years ago.
Denial of the promised land mythology is rather interesting when juxtaposed with your last sentence. I think it's not difficult to imagine the concept of promised land without even invoking god.
Well, the question here is who made that promise? Hmmm? I am not denying an atheist can understand this ridiculous myth which is common to primitive people. I simply do not see how it applies to the US. Can it be an ideal that unifies people into a nation? Of course, it certainly has with Jews for over two thousand years. Do I think it applies to the US as a whole? I just don't see it.
Is the united states or americans more important in the eyes of the politicians? And those who answer (as it's a valid answer) that the united states and americans are one and the same, are uttering a very nationalistic idea. Denying that the nation can ever diverge or be separated from the people that constitute it.
Hmm... I don't quite follow. Maybe if you expand this a little I can get a better understanding.
Quite simply, none of that has to do with nationalism.
"Human Rights" is an egalitarian concept, and is usuall anti-nationalist. You can't have a nation unless you deny that only certain people have a right to live there, which necessarily excludes others.
The only promised land I know of is Israel, and then only if you are one of God's Chosen People. I suppose believing in a god is a requirement there as well. Israel would be correctly labeled nationalist.
A country that can be correctly labeled "nationalist" doesn't have millions of foreigners flooding its borders on a monthly basis like the USA does.
Personally, I think Quebec City needs more police brutality. Montreal in particular needs to be placed under martial law and all the filth rounded up and deported to some desolate island in the hinterlands of Canada.
If I were a citizen of Quebec City, I would be very afraid that my city would turn into another Montreal. If a few citizens have to be inconvenienced now and then for the preservation of Quebecoise culture, or what is left of it, so be it.
Yeah, I did the whole EAC thing and ripped all my CDs to ogg, and then suddenly, a new Winamp version comes out and it won't read the ID3 tags anymore. After much bitching, I find out that ID3 is not supposed to be used with Ogg. So it works for years, then it doesn't because its not supported?
Fuck that.
I ended up with gigs of music that could only be read by ZINF which sucks. No Winamp, no Windows Media Player... Its just not worth the hassle!
I'm not going to analyze every single item on your list...
But the Printing Press? Did you think this through? Do you really think Johann Gutenberg's motivation was profit??? Have you ever read Henry Ford's writings on business organization? He was a far more ardent critic of international finance than me.
I think you need to read a little more about the people who invented the items you are discussing. Most were invented by men who followed their dreams and were hardly concerned with financial gains. More importantly, financial concerns did not dictate whether or IF they pursued that dream.
Was the Parthenon built because it was profitable? The Great Pyramid of Egypt? Did Beethoven write his symphonies for lavish fortune? Did Leonardo da Vinci paint and tinker for this profit of which you speak?
Not much has happened in this world since profit became the guiding motive of life. You will find, at some point in your dreary life, that the accountants and financiers cannot possibily understand what it means to be truly human. Those qualities that propel mankind to challenge the limits of existence are beyond the realm of a ledger or spreadsheet.
Before any great change can take place in this world, the tyranny of international finance must be broken. We must have leadership from aesthetic ideals, not bullshit financial numbers.
NOTHING great will become a reality as long as your attitude is the guiding principle of our civilization.
Strive for greatness, no matter what the cost, even if death. Any other path is for the weak.
What's even more funny is "Hispania" was the what the Romans called the Iberian Penninsula.
Most of the Mexicans I see are clearly of Mayan or Native American descent. They are these short, squat, trollish creatures who speak a corrupt variety of the language of a long dead empire.
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You clearly don't live in an urban environment.
Here in New York, despite regular visits by the exterminator, I still have cockroaches now and then. Sure, most of them are tiny and probably never grow to adulthood. I only see a few adult ones a year, but they are there.
existential duty
Please, tell me more about these existential duties.
As has been stated before, it is a logical impossibility to prove a negative.
you forgot to say "unrestricted" negative. I can prove you don't exist in my room right now. I can't prove that you don't exist anywhere in the universe.
Under different circumstances, your statement would probably be true.
The difference is the entire state of Israel is based upon righting the wrong of Emperor Titus' decision to raze the city of Jerusalem and destroy the state of Judea nearly 2000 years ago. The Kingdom of Israel was destroyed by the Assyrians hundreds of years before that.
When it comes to Israel, ancient history is far more important than you seem to realize.
u.s., u.k., canada and australia are all at the peak of record real estate market highs...so currently, real estate is an extremely overvalued asset, and, by all knowledgable assessment, is set to decline over the coming years.
This is a very ignorant statement, and I don't quite understand why you lumped together all the anglo countries. Real Estate in Germany isn't exactly dirt cheap, and Moscow has some of the highest prices in the world, on par with London and New York.
the UK in particular is NOT going to see a drop in value, until substantial high density multifamily housing is constructed. Why? Its a small country with a lot of people. The supply of land is very finite, and thus if you want a single family detached house, you are going to have to pay for it.
Australia, on the other hand, is a totally different story. Real Estate there is nothing like the US or UK. Sydney is dirt cheap compared to those cities.
The apartment I rent, would be conservatively valued at 600,000 in the current market (similar one just went for that in the same block). I pay $300 per week rent. Current interest rates are approx 7% and expected to rise (but I won't take that into account in these calculations), and the value of the investment is expected to fall by as much as 10% over the coming year.
You clearly have no understanding of finance. $1200 a month will only cover a $180,000 loan. For a $600,000 home, with 20% down and a 30 year mortgage, at the 7% interest rate you specify, your monthly payments will be more like $3,200. Unless you are living someplace with rent control laws, your example is total bullshit. If you ARE taking advantage of rent control, this entire discussion is bullshit...
Also, if the residential real estate market declines by 10% in the next year, real estate is going to be the least of your concerns. That is the stuff depressions are made up of. The decline in values from 1929-1930 wasn't even that steap.
Lets do some maths:
Apparently you aren't using a financial calculator for this.
Approximate interest on purchase of $600,000 for one year -- $42,000 (now at this point, I still don't own any equity, I've just paid the bank).
So you are saying you found a bank that gave you a $600K loan with no money down? What fantasy world are you living in? You also failed to take into account your $3,200 per month loan payments! Oh wait you didn't calculate that properly.
Lets be generous and say that my investment only looses 5% over the next year, that's another $30,000. So, if I have to liquidate at the end of the year, I'm down $72K.
And that's what this is all based on, your unfounded belief RE will decline in value over time.
And you've also just highlighted how to solve the social security problem: make it a regular tax like all others.
15% of 88,000 is nothing. 15% of a $1.5 million salary is quite anothe.
1998? I would say most news organizations had decent websites since then. Hell, I have been using the New York Times website since 1995, and still use the same login to boot.
The web was quite mature by 1998 and I haven't noticed much innovation since then.
the longer people perceive the government is illigitmate and ineffectual, the closer we get to civil war. Personally, I really look forward to an all out conflict.
There is one thing America needs, and its more violence and bloodshed. The gods of war have been put aside for decades, peace and prosperity have gone on for too long. America is like an overripe fruit at the end of the harvest season, rotting with excessive sweetness.
The cycle of life must continue!
I take a slightly different view; back when I started dealing with PC hardware in '95, much of the on-board hardware was "dog poo" and was also poorly supported by Linux.
Out here in the real world, we say "dog shit"
Hahahhahaha, I am on the floor, laughing my ass off! You are so fucking funnnnyyyy!! That canadian humor is going to go down in history with the likes of Aristophanes! Truly history in the making!
Who ever thought one could come up with such a clever response to an obviously insulting rhetorical question? Now, for all time to come, brilliant sophists around the world can follow your lead, you master of sardonic whit! We stupid Americans, we simply bow before your greatness, humbled to the core of our pitiful souls.
I don't see what the problem is.
Canada and the US export a substantial majority of their grain to the rest of the world, something like 90%. I don't think it will affect the US or Europe.
Certainly large numbers of people will die in the turd world, but who cares what happens to them. The fewer there are of them, the better.
I think this is great, bring on the ice age!
Dude, I live on St-Catherine street, and you have no clue what the hell you are talking about. It is the center of downtown Montreal, and it is EXTREMLY safe.
I realize it is a north south artery, but in the context of the message I was responding to, we are talking about the latin quarter, ie St Catherine and St Denis. That is not quite the center of downtown montreal.
Just so you know, after 2am there are police cars EVERYWHERE patrolling on and around St-Catherine.
I'm not saying they aren't there. I am saying they are pussies and ineffectual. It is a travesty they are even referred to as police officers.
The best parts of it are the strip bars. Don't know what it's like now but 20 years ago we used to go up there just to spend the evening at Jason's or the Latin Quarter because the women were incredibly naked and incredibly beautiful and the exchage rate made it cheaper per dance or drink than going to an american bar right across the border. Walk down the street at 2AM and you could find old people out strolling or eating at a sidewalk cafe. And they have that great healthcare system and a penal system that seems to genuinely be about reform rather than revenge.
Wow, this post is so contrary to reality on so many levels.
Are you talking about the latin quarter in Montreal? Rue St. Catherine? If sooo........
The strip clubs suck. They are filled with Arabs and other "refugees" who spend their entire lives lusting after white women. The strippers are either disgusting refugees or they are poor girls from the countryside forced to sell their bodies because the canadian and quebec economy is fscked.
And old people at 2am?? Yeah right, more like bikers, prostitutes, and drug dealers. St. Catherine Street is probably the most openly criminal city in North America north of the Rio Grande.
And the healthcare system... All I can say is, yeah whatever. That's why so many canadians have supplemental insurance and use it in the US.
And the penal system. It is outright hillarious. Go to Montreal. It is today one of the most dangerous cities out there. The Montreal police are a joke.
I am from New York, I haven't seen a prostitute on the street in over a decade. I haven't seen open drug dealing in the same amount of time. In montreal I get HARASSED by prostitutes. I've heard drug dealers give out price lists for different quantities of coke and heroin. Its crazy!
AND the exchange rate is not that great anymore. I predict MOntreal tourism is going to collapse in the next few years.
Actually third degree burns aren't painful at all. One of the defining characteristics between 2nd and 3rd degree burns is that the nerve endings are destroyed in 3rd degree burns, so that you feel no pain.
Sunburn is an example of a 1st degree burn. 2nd and 3rd degree burns are basically anything worse. And as far as the coffee is concerned, it has the same boiling point as water. I don't know how you make your coffee, but I use boiling water. It really does brew the best coffee. In fact, every coffee house I have ever been to uses boiling water.
The goal of these companies is not to make money through cash flows over time, but to innovate enough so that a major network purchases them. Thus, all their profit is going to come from one network, at one time in the future.
One simple definition of nationalism is the glorification of a nation above all else.
While I understand what you are saying because I am very familiar with this subject, I hope you realize this is not a definition of anything. The word that requires clarification here is "nation".
Trying to impose a standard of human rights is totally orthogonal to whether it is done in a nationalistic spirit or not.
"Human Rights" applies to all humans. It is not British Rights. or German Rights. It is a concept that came about due to internationalist political thought, that the whole of the humanity is composed of equals and thus they should have identical rights. This is incompatible with nationalism.
Or even whether the intentions are good or not, as exemplified by the colonial politics of the european countries throughout the 19th and early 20th century. (This was all done under the guise of bringing civilisation to conquered "savages")
But you are failing to see how that is an extension of normal human behavior. It is the course of history that more advanced, discplined tribes displace the weaker, less advanced ones. In time, these tribes became cities, and eventually they became nations. Who cares what the reasoning is. Nationalism is the modern form of tribal "us versus them".
I guess it's hard to see when you are bathed in it, but the profusion of symbols (colors, flags) also play a big role in the infusion of the "nation" everywhere.
This, I think shows you have an intellectual understanding of historical nationalism but not an aesthetic understanding. Nationalism is about ideals which unify a particular group of people in opposition to their competitors. The means of expressing (or reinforcing as the case may be) that unity is wholly secondary to the ideal itself. Jews for instance are the most successful nation in history, yet they did not use any flags until 50 years ago.
Denial of the promised land mythology is rather interesting when juxtaposed with your last sentence. I think it's not difficult to imagine the concept of promised land without even invoking god.
Well, the question here is who made that promise? Hmmm? I am not denying an atheist can understand this ridiculous myth which is common to primitive people. I simply do not see how it applies to the US. Can it be an ideal that unifies people into a nation? Of course, it certainly has with Jews for over two thousand years. Do I think it applies to the US as a whole? I just don't see it.
Is the united states or americans more important in the eyes of the politicians? And those who answer (as it's a valid answer) that the united states and americans are one and the same, are uttering a very nationalistic idea. Denying that the nation can ever diverge or be separated from the people that constitute it.
Hmm... I don't quite follow. Maybe if you expand this a little I can get a better understanding.
Quite simply, none of that has to do with nationalism.
"Human Rights" is an egalitarian concept, and is usuall anti-nationalist. You can't have a nation unless you deny that only certain people have a right to live there, which necessarily excludes others.
The only promised land I know of is Israel, and then only if you are one of God's Chosen People. I suppose believing in a god is a requirement there as well. Israel would be correctly labeled nationalist.
A country that can be correctly labeled "nationalist" doesn't have millions of foreigners flooding its borders on a monthly basis like the USA does.
Personally, I think Quebec City needs more police brutality. Montreal in particular needs to be placed under martial law and all the filth rounded up and deported to some desolate island in the hinterlands of Canada.
If I were a citizen of Quebec City, I would be very afraid that my city would turn into another Montreal. If a few citizens have to be inconvenienced now and then for the preservation of Quebecoise culture, or what is left of it, so be it.
My day is complete when I've marked someone as 'Foe'
oh wait...
Yeah, I did the whole EAC thing and ripped all my CDs to ogg, and then suddenly, a new Winamp version comes out and it won't read the ID3 tags anymore. After much bitching, I find out that ID3 is not supposed to be used with Ogg. So it works for years, then it doesn't because its not supported?
Fuck that.
I ended up with gigs of music that could only be read by ZINF which sucks. No Winamp, no Windows Media Player... Its just not worth the hassle!
Better yet, tell us how Hallow means "All Saints"
I'm not going to analyze every single item on your list...
But the Printing Press? Did you think this through? Do you really think Johann Gutenberg's motivation was profit??? Have you ever read Henry Ford's writings on business organization? He was a far more ardent critic of international finance than me.
I think you need to read a little more about the people who invented the items you are discussing. Most were invented by men who followed their dreams and were hardly concerned with financial gains. More importantly, financial concerns did not dictate whether or IF they pursued that dream.
Was the Parthenon built because it was profitable? The Great Pyramid of Egypt? Did Beethoven write his symphonies for lavish fortune? Did Leonardo da Vinci paint and tinker for this profit of which you speak?
Not much has happened in this world since profit became the guiding motive of life. You will find, at some point in your dreary life, that the accountants and financiers cannot possibily understand what it means to be truly human. Those qualities that propel mankind to challenge the limits of existence are beyond the realm of a ledger or spreadsheet.
Before any great change can take place in this world, the tyranny of international finance must be broken. We must have leadership from aesthetic ideals, not bullshit financial numbers.
NOTHING great will become a reality as long as your attitude is the guiding principle of our civilization.
Strive for greatness, no matter what the cost, even if death. Any other path is for the weak.
You just can't spend the $100 for a new motherboard and 128 megs of ram huh?
What's even more funny is "Hispania" was the what the Romans called the Iberian Penninsula.
Most of the Mexicans I see are clearly of Mayan or Native American descent. They are these short, squat, trollish creatures who speak a corrupt variety of the language of a long dead empire.
What do they have to do with ancient Hispania?