War generally has had little effect on population. WWII only killed 3% of the population of the countries involved (and had a subsequent population explosion). Compare to the black death which took out something like 30%.
For those of you who haven't seen this movie, I'm going to save you 2.5 hours.
Monkeys hitting each other to the tune of Also Sprach Zarathustra Stewardess walks around in zero gravity Cold scientists talk to other cold scientists in passive aggressive manner Scientist explains that they have found evidence of ET life obelisk stroking to the tune of really obnoxious high pitched noise Some new astronauts appear with their super-smart-computer HAL HAL makes a mistake and astronauts want to shut him off HAL doesn't want to die and starts killing the crew Dave tries to kill HAL HAL tries to convince him otherwise HAL sings daisy as he is disconnected Dave turns into a fetus The audience looks pissed off except for the 3 art students in the back who insist that we have to think about what the movie is NOT saying to get what it was really trying to say.
Yes, why can't you have a dozen 13 year old wives rolling you joints while you shoot heroin in the nude with a transvestite prostitute you smuggled out of Somalia?
Cause thankfully there are laws against people like that being in my society.
Relativity is concerned with the speed of light in a vacuum. Anytime light passes through a substance it is slowed down. It's not much different than walking past a cup of water.
We weep for a bird's cry, but not for a fish's blood. Blessed are those with a voice. If the dolls also had voices, they would have screamed, "I didn't want to become human."
The only reason Iran and Syria don't overwhelm Israel is because they would surely be destroyed by Israel's nuclear weapons. The reason Iran and Syria would want nuclear weapons is not so they can immediately launch them at Israel, but so that they can create a situation of mutually assured destruction and then wage conventional warfare (which they have much better odds of winning).
The cost of the Iraq war so far has been about 1.4 billion barrels of oil per year. Pre-war Iraq only produced around 730 Million barrels a year (A little less than they do today). Even if 100% of the oil was consumed by the US for absolutely free it would take 2 years of oil production to recoup the costs for every year we have been in Iraq.
Considering that US oil consumption is about 7 billion barrels a year it's kind of hard to believe that Iraq is all about oil.
A more likely scenario is that Iran or Syria acquires nuclear weapons and your son will be called to protect the right for Israel to exist. When that happens you will probably be glad that 10 years prior to that somebody else's son fought to secure a stable military infrastructure in Iraq.
I'm pretty much certain if Oil was the real problem it would be a lot cheaper in the long run to just harvest shale.
Did he do any research showing that it's impossible for 8 people to find a needle in a haystack by evaluating one needle at a time?
Maybe he could then go on to propose that these people "self-replicate" and create more people to look for the needle? That would make it go faster. However this obviously would cause problems because inevitably they would end up competing for resources or start forming unions to demand that they only need to look at 3 needles at a time.
There's a third kind: The thoughtful person. They realize that there *IS* something to fear, that society is something you need to treat with respect and that you need to plan accordingly.
Think about this: Would anybody care about Rosa Parks if she wasn't a little old lady? How many hundreds of black men tried the same thing and only ended up in prison?
In that example reality still doesn't have a bias. It's still a liberal bias that says "People are too dumb to want seat belts so the free market will never demand them" and a conservative bias that says "Don't make us put things in our cars that we can't objectively prove there is a demand for"
The vast majority of the people who "take a hard stance" on cleaning up the neighborhood are either old curmudgeons with grown children or childless yuppies. You know, the same people with rooms full of furniture they never sit on and dishes they never eat off of and a yard with no purpose except to grow grass.
People with children realize that life is a messy business and that it moves way too quickly to be worried about other people's lawn.
He said greed. He didn't say anything about isolation.
In any case spare me the 'the world used to be a tight-knit community' crap. That was never true and only exists in romanticized portrayals of the past (usually by old men reminiscing about their youth). There were large cities and small towns just like there were today. Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft was not a new concept in 1912 and it still isn't today.
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War generally has had little effect on population. WWII only killed 3% of the population of the countries involved (and had a subsequent population explosion). Compare to the black death which took out something like 30%.
For those of you who haven't seen this movie, I'm going to save you 2.5 hours.
Monkeys hitting each other to the tune of Also Sprach Zarathustra
Stewardess walks around in zero gravity
Cold scientists talk to other cold scientists in passive aggressive manner
Scientist explains that they have found evidence of ET life
obelisk stroking to the tune of really obnoxious high pitched noise
Some new astronauts appear with their super-smart-computer HAL
HAL makes a mistake and astronauts want to shut him off
HAL doesn't want to die and starts killing the crew
Dave tries to kill HAL
HAL tries to convince him otherwise
HAL sings daisy as he is disconnected
Dave turns into a fetus
The audience looks pissed off except for the 3 art students in the back who insist that we have to think about what the movie is NOT saying to get what it was really trying to say.
... and even with all that it still manages to be the most boring story ever told.
Yes, why can't you have a dozen 13 year old wives rolling you joints while you shoot heroin in the nude with a transvestite prostitute you smuggled out of Somalia?
Cause thankfully there are laws against people like that being in my society.
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The government doesn't spend $10 on a screw. They spend $10 on an M2.5 truss head stainless steel threaded fastening device.
Relativity is concerned with the speed of light in a vacuum. Anytime light passes through a substance it is slowed down. It's not much different than walking past a cup of water.
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Aww man, you forgot the best part of that quote:
"As soon as you discard scientific rigor, you're no longer a mathematician, you're a numerologist."
I guess once you've been in space it's all downhill from there.
makes me wish the electric slide was suddenly turned into the electric water slide.
NEWMAN!
I never thought I'd see the day this would be on CNN:c are/newt1.1827.boston.wcvb.jpg
http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/US/01/31/boston.bombs
You might be an Ayn Rand objectivist if:
You're a brilliant innovator. Really. You'd show us... but we're not worthy of benefiting from your genius.
You replaced your subscription of Penthouse with the Wall Street Journal and read it for the same purpose.
Whenever you visit a national park you lament all the sky scrapers that should have been built there instead.
You day dream about escaping to Galt's Gulch, even though the male\female ratio is something like 10:1. Hey, it worked for the Smurfs.
It takes you 20 minutes to explain to people the concept of "A thing is itself" and wonder why people think you are condescending.
We weep for a bird's cry, but not for a fish's blood. Blessed are those with a voice. If the dolls also had voices, they would have screamed, "I didn't want to become human."
The only reason Iran and Syria don't overwhelm Israel is because they would surely be destroyed by Israel's nuclear weapons. The reason Iran and Syria would want nuclear weapons is not so they can immediately launch them at Israel, but so that they can create a situation of mutually assured destruction and then wage conventional warfare (which they have much better odds of winning).
The cost of the Iraq war so far has been about 1.4 billion barrels of oil per year. Pre-war Iraq only produced around 730 Million barrels a year (A little less than they do today). Even if 100% of the oil was consumed by the US for absolutely free it would take 2 years of oil production to recoup the costs for every year we have been in Iraq.
Considering that US oil consumption is about 7 billion barrels a year it's kind of hard to believe that Iraq is all about oil.
A more likely scenario is that Iran or Syria acquires nuclear weapons and your son will be called to protect the right for Israel to exist. When that happens you will probably be glad that 10 years prior to that somebody else's son fought to secure a stable military infrastructure in Iraq.
I'm pretty much certain if Oil was the real problem it would be a lot cheaper in the long run to just harvest shale.
Did he do any research showing that it's impossible for 8 people to find a needle in a haystack by evaluating one needle at a time?
Maybe he could then go on to propose that these people "self-replicate" and create more people to look for the needle? That would make it go faster. However this obviously would cause problems because inevitably they would end up competing for resources or start forming unions to demand that they only need to look at 3 needles at a time.
I would say so, except it looks so crappy. Reality badly needs an upgrade.
There's a third kind: The thoughtful person. They realize that there *IS* something to fear, that society is something you need to treat with respect and that you need to plan accordingly.
Think about this: Would anybody care about Rosa Parks if she wasn't a little old lady? How many hundreds of black men tried the same thing and only ended up in prison?
You need more than just a backbone.
In that example reality still doesn't have a bias. It's still a liberal bias that says "People are too dumb to want seat belts so the free market will never demand them" and a conservative bias that says "Don't make us put things in our cars that we can't objectively prove there is a demand for"
The vast majority of the people who "take a hard stance" on cleaning up the neighborhood are either old curmudgeons with grown children or childless yuppies. You know, the same people with rooms full of furniture they never sit on and dishes they never eat off of and a yard with no purpose except to grow grass.
People with children realize that life is a messy business and that it moves way too quickly to be worried about other people's lawn.
He said greed. He didn't say anything about isolation.
In any case spare me the 'the world used to be a tight-knit community' crap. That was never true and only exists in romanticized portrayals of the past (usually by old men reminiscing about their youth). There were large cities and small towns just like there were today. Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft was not a new concept in 1912 and it still isn't today.