But I think there might be hope for capitalism in the US afterall! Hollywood is old school and very traditional; they like things done how they've always been done and in the past have been completely unwilling to acknowledge the need for change. Luckily, the dollar is a very powerful persuader. That being said, I still really enjoy the move going experience but let's save it for movies that are actually entertaining. Let them keep making the crap but send most of it straight to DVD. Might piss the theatre chains off but business is a changing.
Capitalism is an ec0nomic system Communism is an economic system
Democracy's do not have to be capitalistic system, go look at most of europe; they're socialists but they elect their leaders democratically.
I know that this makes this discussion less fun but don't just assume that democracy and capitalism are irrevocably linked; if you're not trying to say that then don't compare COMMUNIST DICTATORS [read facism] to DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED officials. Democracy ain't perfect, capitalism ain't perfect but communism sure as hell doesn't work, ever. Yes I know it's never been implemented correctly; why? Maybe because of the nature of people who go in to politics; we can at least get rid of our wind bags [please no conspiracy theories about how Bush plans to change that; I don't like him and he is CLEARLY a narcissist but in his own fucked up world I think he thinks he's makin the world a better place. I don't believe he enjoys torturing people, he's a little too dim witted for that].
I agree; things change and shit happens. What if I want to drive a horse driven carriage on the freeway? I don't think they'd let me but the horse driven carriage predates the car; moreover the United States [I know the rest of the world is different but comments seem to be centered on the US and not the rest of the world so deal] is a free market economy. It's not always perfect and it's not always free but ham users are not entitled to this bandwidth although it seems as though many think they are. The world changes and shit happens; get on board or get off. You have every right to get off and disagree but there are serious consequences to it and most people arn't willing to accept that; we all want our cake and want to eat it too.
Oh and personally, I'd rather have people out in bumfuck nowhere that have no internet access currently to have the internet. Why you may ask? Despite the fact that internet is MOSTLY full of porn and people trying to get your money anyway possible it is also a place where people can come together and share ideas in a large community. Believe it or not, slashdot is a community; we're a bit dsyfunctional and I think most of us are more than a little crazy [myself included] but we're still a community. We share ideas and insights and are able to have a discussion about things like this from all over the world. In my book, that's a lot more valuable means of communication than a ham radio...feel free to disagree:)
Don't forget the millions of people that will die in the process and the governments that will be erased from existence; that being said the human species is in no danger. May we be at a golden age? Although thoroughly depressing to think about we might be, but humans arn't going anywhere. I'm not advocating ignoring this problem, because it is a very real problem, merely trying to put things in to perspective.
The stuff I've read pretty much say that global warming is going to bend Europe over and stick it in the pooper; southern part is going to become uninhabitable [read desert] and I'm guessing Holland and parts of northern europe will flood pushing EVERYONE in to the middle...but I dunno I just pretend like I know things, this is/.!
"Not to mention that the US Army is rediculously trigger happy too."
K, I'll be honest, this bugs me a little bit. Let's throw out all the propaganda and the nonsense that media presents to people and let's talk about War. Make no mistake about what the GoP is saying or what anyone else is saying about it, the US is currently in a War. There's a really scary and sadistic side to war; the gloves must come off. You can't play by these idyllic rules; you have to be capable of killing because sometimes that is the only way to save yourself.
Basically, you have 19 year old kids in the middle of a foreign country who don't even know who their real enemy is; it could be the kid across the street or the IED hidden on the road, that'll make ANYONE trigger happy.
C'mon now...it was funny! As Dennis Leary would say "I'm going to hell for that bit. And you're all coming with me! And don't try to get out of it, "We didn't laugh at that bit, Jesus, please!" "Shut up! Get on the bus with Leary and Scorsese. You're going right to fucking hell!" And you know what hell is folks. It's Andy Gibb, singing Shadow Dancing for eons and eons. And you have to wear orange plaid bell bottoms and sit next to the Bay City Rollers. "How you guys doing? This is gonna suck!"
Don't worry, we have plenty of drugs going around. Not everyone will become addicted to EverCrack and its ilk, but everyone eventually becomes addicted to something:)
You're busy thinking about yourself and not thinking about the species as a whole [and so you know, I'm probably thinking about myself when it comes down to it as well, aka this post isn't an attempt to gain a moral high ground]. As a species we only need one ship full of probably 13 people to continue; I could be wrong on the number needed but it's not too many.
Stop throwing out psuedo-scientific terms to validate your case; besides who fucking cares if humans go the way of the Do-Do? I don't want to see it happen but in the big picture we're pretty irrelevant. Organisms will probably be living on this planet until the day that our Sun goes supernova. The chances of them being related to human beings? Pretty slim, but I'm ok with that; enjoy it while we can but life is dynamic and sometimes that means you no longer get a piece of the pie.
Don't get me wrong I'm all in favor of keeping the planet healthy and shit but the fact is the planet isn't going anywhere and there is probably going to be life here for quite sometime to come, regardless of what said environmentalists might say. It is fair to ask how involved we humans will be in that life, and we may not be all that involved if some bad shit happens but it's plain silly and extremely arrogant to level alarmist claims about the end of the world [which you are not doing, I just like my soap box dammit!].
IANAGP and I don't pretend to know squat about Volcanoes, save they can release a hell of a lot of energy; I'm curious to whether having the Yellowstone Volcano blow would produce enough of the green house gases to knock the planet out of snowball state. As I said, I don't know squat about squat just posing hypotheticals because well this is slashdot and if you don't got an opinion here, you don't got an opinion!
"My mom took me to see Mel Gibson's movie The Passion and Mel Gibson says that you are snakes and you are liars. And if the Road Warrior says it, it must be true."
Call me crazy but I think Cartman and Cruise have more than just the C in their last name in common. Here's an interesting psychological profile of Mr Cartman. It's a conspiracy folks, Tom Cruise really wants to be Eric Cartman!
The first thing Philosophy does for you, it improves your reading comprehension. Go read Immanual Kant's Critique of Pure Reason or Hegel's Phenomology of Spirit, if you really sit down and force yourself to try and make some sense of this stuff and you manage to make it through them your ability to read will improve ten-fold...'least it did for me. That's not critical thinking though...
In fact, you don't even have to read philosophy to accomplish a critical thinking class; instead focus on a class that focuses on logic. Learning how an argument is crafted in a logical cogent manner is an incredibly powerful thinking tool. It allows you to discern important from unimportant facts and lays the foundation for understanding the pattern that all arguments follow in order to be valid.
Then again these are my experiences, and maybe I'm just a hell of a lot smarter than most people...oh right I am.
I'll agree that philosophy should not be taught K-8 but it should be a priority in high school. Philosophy is all about teaching people to reason and to think; these are skills that are vital to the future of any nation, particularly in an age that is shifting towards knowledge based workers and away from industrial.
I have found that people rise to the bar that is set; if we had a system that required people to develop critical thinking skills than some would; others wouldn't but some kids can't do algebra. Granted, I was a philosophy major in college so I'm going to argue its merit til the end of time; that's sorta part of being a philosophy major:)
Actually, intelligent design has its roots in ancient philosophy. Some of the pre-socratics and event Plato/Aristotle make references to intelligent design.
Aristotle had his prime mover and Plato had his demigogue; I could be confusing them but Ancient Philosophy was at 8 AM and I was a drunk in college...the two don't really go together. Point is, intelligent design is something that has been hijacked by Christian Zealots in order to allow them to have a better footing with respect to the "Bible said so!" defense.
The only thing that I find remotely interesting in Irvine is probably the Yardhouse....mmmmm 100 kinds of beer on tap...even if the Spectrum sorta sucks:)
At least I'm not hiding behind AC to talk about the problem that is the current manifestation of the Evangelical Christians. These people think that there is a difference between "their" God and God in other various sects...I guess the evangelical's didn't get the memo that they're all just imaginary friends in the first place.
Believing in God is a choice, it is not something that need be mandated.
Mrs. Clinton is attempting to put herself in a position to be the democratic candidate for the 2008 Presidential election. This has nothing to do with GTA and everything to do with her attempting to strengthen how she is percieved with respect to traditional family values. I am not a fan of Bush and consider much of what he does to be fascist, but Hilary makes Bush look like a libertarian.
If by "touring space" you mean entering the upper atmosphere, I'll believe it. Unless Mr. Bronson plans on dumping his entire worth in to R&D...maybe his but I doubt it.
Yeah so there is this thing called inflation....$100,000,000 40 years ago would be $1,600,000,000 today [I'm using my old mans standard which is that about every decade the cost of things double...some armchair economist may not agree but given what he does and his success, I'm going to go with it]. Anyhow, with modern technology you may be able to knock off $600,000,000 but that still leaves you a cool $900,000,000 short.
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But I think there might be hope for capitalism in the US afterall! Hollywood is old school and very traditional; they like things done how they've always been done and in the past have been completely unwilling to acknowledge the need for change. Luckily, the dollar is a very powerful persuader. That being said, I still really enjoy the move going experience but let's save it for movies that are actually entertaining. Let them keep making the crap but send most of it straight to DVD. Might piss the theatre chains off but business is a changing.
Senator + President + United States = Democracy
Democracy's are political system
Capitalism is an ec0nomic system
Communism is an economic system
Democracy's do not have to be capitalistic system, go look at most of europe; they're socialists but they elect their leaders democratically.
I know that this makes this discussion less fun but don't just assume that democracy and capitalism are irrevocably linked; if you're not trying to say that then don't compare COMMUNIST DICTATORS [read facism] to DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED officials. Democracy ain't perfect, capitalism ain't perfect but communism sure as hell doesn't work, ever. Yes I know it's never been implemented correctly; why? Maybe because of the nature of people who go in to politics; we can at least get rid of our wind bags [please no conspiracy theories about how Bush plans to change that; I don't like him and he is CLEARLY a narcissist but in his own fucked up world I think he thinks he's makin the world a better place. I don't believe he enjoys torturing people, he's a little too dim witted for that].
I agree; things change and shit happens. What if I want to drive a horse driven carriage on the freeway? I don't think they'd let me but the horse driven carriage predates the car; moreover the United States [I know the rest of the world is different but comments seem to be centered on the US and not the rest of the world so deal] is a free market economy. It's not always perfect and it's not always free but ham users are not entitled to this bandwidth although it seems as though many think they are. The world changes and shit happens; get on board or get off. You have every right to get off and disagree but there are serious consequences to it and most people arn't willing to accept that; we all want our cake and want to eat it too.
:)
Oh and personally, I'd rather have people out in bumfuck nowhere that have no internet access currently to have the internet. Why you may ask? Despite the fact that internet is MOSTLY full of porn and people trying to get your money anyway possible it is also a place where people can come together and share ideas in a large community. Believe it or not, slashdot is a community; we're a bit dsyfunctional and I think most of us are more than a little crazy [myself included] but we're still a community. We share ideas and insights and are able to have a discussion about things like this from all over the world. In my book, that's a lot more valuable means of communication than a ham radio...feel free to disagree
Good luck losing the rest of that weight man; been there done that and it's a tough road but it's well worth it.
Don't forget the millions of people that will die in the process and the governments that will be erased from existence; that being said the human species is in no danger. May we be at a golden age? Although thoroughly depressing to think about we might be, but humans arn't going anywhere. I'm not advocating ignoring this problem, because it is a very real problem, merely trying to put things in to perspective.
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The stuff I've read pretty much say that global warming is going to bend Europe over and stick it in the pooper; southern part is going to become uninhabitable [read desert] and I'm guessing Holland and parts of northern europe will flood pushing EVERYONE in to the middle...but I dunno I just pretend like I know things, this is
"Not to mention that the US Army is rediculously trigger happy too."
K, I'll be honest, this bugs me a little bit. Let's throw out all the propaganda and the nonsense that media presents to people and let's talk about War. Make no mistake about what the GoP is saying or what anyone else is saying about it, the US is currently in a War. There's a really scary and sadistic side to war; the gloves must come off. You can't play by these idyllic rules; you have to be capable of killing because sometimes that is the only way to save yourself.
Basically, you have 19 year old kids in the middle of a foreign country who don't even know who their real enemy is; it could be the kid across the street or the IED hidden on the road, that'll make ANYONE trigger happy.
C'mon now...it was funny!
As Dennis Leary would say "I'm going to hell for that bit. And you're all coming with me! And don't try to get out of it, "We didn't laugh at that bit, Jesus, please!" "Shut up! Get on the bus with Leary and Scorsese. You're going right to fucking hell!" And you know what hell is folks. It's Andy Gibb, singing Shadow Dancing for eons and eons. And you have to wear orange plaid bell bottoms and sit next to the Bay City Rollers. "How you guys doing? This is gonna suck!"
Don't worry, we have plenty of drugs going around. Not everyone will become addicted to EverCrack and its ilk, but everyone eventually becomes addicted to something :)
It's all about the comeback....
Thanks for the info :)
You're busy thinking about yourself and not thinking about the species as a whole [and so you know, I'm probably thinking about myself when it comes down to it as well, aka this post isn't an attempt to gain a moral high ground]. As a species we only need one ship full of probably 13 people to continue; I could be wrong on the number needed but it's not too many.
Stop throwing out psuedo-scientific terms to validate your case; besides who fucking cares if humans go the way of the Do-Do? I don't want to see it happen but in the big picture we're pretty irrelevant. Organisms will probably be living on this planet until the day that our Sun goes supernova. The chances of them being related to human beings? Pretty slim, but I'm ok with that; enjoy it while we can but life is dynamic and sometimes that means you no longer get a piece of the pie.
Don't get me wrong I'm all in favor of keeping the planet healthy and shit but the fact is the planet isn't going anywhere and there is probably going to be life here for quite sometime to come, regardless of what said environmentalists might say. It is fair to ask how involved we humans will be in that life, and we may not be all that involved if some bad shit happens but it's plain silly and extremely arrogant to level alarmist claims about the end of the world [which you are not doing, I just like my soap box dammit!].
IANAGP and I don't pretend to know squat about Volcanoes, save they can release a hell of a lot of energy; I'm curious to whether having the Yellowstone Volcano blow would produce enough of the green house gases to knock the planet out of snowball state. As I said, I don't know squat about squat just posing hypotheticals because well this is slashdot and if you don't got an opinion here, you don't got an opinion!
"My mom took me to see Mel Gibson's movie The Passion and Mel Gibson says that you are snakes and you are liars. And if the Road Warrior says it, it must be true."
Call me crazy but I think Cartman and Cruise have more than just the C in their last name in common.
Here's an interesting psychological profile of Mr Cartman. It's a conspiracy folks, Tom Cruise really wants to be Eric Cartman!
Don't be hatin on Hackers, afterall Angeline Jolie's tits are shown in it...any movie that does that gets an A in my book :)
The first thing Philosophy does for you, it improves your reading comprehension. Go read Immanual Kant's Critique of Pure Reason or Hegel's Phenomology of Spirit, if you really sit down and force yourself to try and make some sense of this stuff and you manage to make it through them your ability to read will improve ten-fold...'least it did for me. That's not critical thinking though...
In fact, you don't even have to read philosophy to accomplish a critical thinking class; instead focus on a class that focuses on logic. Learning how an argument is crafted in a logical cogent manner is an incredibly powerful thinking tool. It allows you to discern important from unimportant facts and lays the foundation for understanding the pattern that all arguments follow in order to be valid.
Then again these are my experiences, and maybe I'm just a hell of a lot smarter than most people...oh right I am.
I'll agree that philosophy should not be taught K-8 but it should be a priority in high school. Philosophy is all about teaching people to reason and to think; these are skills that are vital to the future of any nation, particularly in an age that is shifting towards knowledge based workers and away from industrial.
:)
I have found that people rise to the bar that is set; if we had a system that required people to develop critical thinking skills than some would; others wouldn't but some kids can't do algebra. Granted, I was a philosophy major in college so I'm going to argue its merit til the end of time; that's sorta part of being a philosophy major
Actually, intelligent design has its roots in ancient philosophy. Some of the pre-socratics and event Plato/Aristotle make references to intelligent design.
Aristotle had his prime mover and Plato had his demigogue; I could be confusing them but Ancient Philosophy was at 8 AM and I was a drunk in college...the two don't really go together. Point is, intelligent design is something that has been hijacked by Christian Zealots in order to allow them to have a better footing with respect to the "Bible said so!" defense.
The only thing that I find remotely interesting in Irvine is probably the Yardhouse....mmmmm 100 kinds of beer on tap...even if the Spectrum sorta sucks :)
At least I'm not hiding behind AC to talk about the problem that is the current manifestation of the Evangelical Christians. These people think that there is a difference between "their" God and God in other various sects...I guess the evangelical's didn't get the memo that they're all just imaginary friends in the first place.
Believing in God is a choice, it is not something that need be mandated.
I'm going to have to disagree on that whole slander thing, at least those Evangelical mother fuckers seem pretty cultish to me.
PS: I'm a recovering catholic.
Mrs. Clinton is attempting to put herself in a position to be the democratic candidate for the 2008 Presidential election. This has nothing to do with GTA and everything to do with her attempting to strengthen how she is percieved with respect to traditional family values. I am not a fan of Bush and consider much of what he does to be fascist, but Hilary makes Bush look like a libertarian.
Ahhh fun times!
Actually I thought I'd clarify things a bit more than my last post "What do we think the experience of sub-orbital space tourism with Virgin Galactic will be like?"
If by "touring space" you mean entering the upper atmosphere, I'll believe it. Unless Mr. Bronson plans on dumping his entire worth in to R&D...maybe his but I doubt it.
Yeah so there is this thing called inflation....$100,000,000 40 years ago would be $1,600,000,000 today [I'm using my old mans standard which is that about every decade the cost of things double...some armchair economist may not agree but given what he does and his success, I'm going to go with it]. Anyhow, with modern technology you may be able to knock off $600,000,000 but that still leaves you a cool $900,000,000 short.
:)
Inflation is a bitch