Earth, this is crazy talk! You don't look anything like Saturn! Why must you always do this to yourself! I love you for who you are, not your equator diamater! I'm throwing these diet pills away right now!
The problem is, humans have a history of using these differences for the greater bad, or creating differences out of their imagination for the oppression of one sex or another (i.e.women unable to vote).
That's why gender is a better explanation than it is a justification, if you get my drift.
Modern, free societies with good governments and economies have birthrates barely above replacement levels.
Correlation does not imply causation.
Simple natural law dictates that a species can only reach a population allowed by the surrounding resources. When it overpopulates, starvation reduces the levels back to a managable rate.
So, if X food is being produced, and Y people starve daily, and the population is increased moreso daily by Z from those who are not starving, then no matter how much you increase X, eventually you will hit a state where the population (as Z's reproducation has increased), once again, is starving and Y shoots back up.
Thus, world hunger and possibly the demise of humanity can not be solved by simply producing more food and distributing it more efficiently, but only stopped by consciously controlling our population.
I generally agree with you, (creationists drive me mad) but progress is best done in moderation and after it has been debated thoroughly, since what some once called 'progress', others called 'holocaust'.
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I'm an idealist who's employed. Luckily my bosses are not from the marketing dept. ;)
Where the plankton comes sweeping down the plains!!!
Or as Ghandi said, after awhile, an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind.
I cut my hand using Microsoft Excel. Does that count as on the edge?
The system might actually work!
Ticker tape parade on me!
neener neener, I'm bothering.
It's not the same as walking into Borders and yoinking a cd, since noone is really directly hurt.
And unless the downloader is making his own CDs and selling them for 1/2 price, then he's really not doing anything but looking at art.
Recording radio shows isn't illegal(I hope), this is no different.
Either way, if the listener enjoys the music, he may pay 40 bucks to see the band in concert, and pay 20 bucks for a ill-fitting t-shirt.
It was in the form of a memo:
To: CEO of DirectTV
From: Quality Assurance Engineer
Re: Our service
CEO,
I regret to inform you that our product is inferior, and should not be purchased. I pray no one gets wind of this discovery.
~QA
Does it run on Win98?.... ;)
Get out of the Matrix.
Earth, this is crazy talk! You don't look anything like Saturn! Why must you always do this to yourself! I love you for who you are, not your equator diamater! I'm throwing these diet pills away right now!
The money dance looks a bit too similar to the hokey-pokey!
Phase 1: Offer to sell mp3s which can be acquired for free elsewhere.
Phase 2: ????
Phase 3: Profit!!!
Wait wait, I know this one.
Let's see.
Step 1: Collect Underpants.
Step 3: Profit!!!
Step 2........... : '????'?
So that's how those pictures of mating llamas got on my hard drive!
Why haven't I deleted them?...
*shifts eyes, and flees*
Spam comes in a can,
It was put there by a man,
In factory downtown.
And if I had my little way,
I'd get spammed every day!...
I wonder what they'll make of my Beethoven/Metallica mix...
The problem is, humans have a history of using these differences for the greater bad, or creating differences out of their imagination for the oppression of one sex or another (i.e.women unable to vote).
That's why gender is a better explanation than it is a justification, if you get my drift.
I'm afraid that once I get on, I will come up only to eat," she said. "I read these scare stories about people who once they get on can't get off."
And we're cutting funding for public education??
Modern, free societies with good governments and economies have birthrates barely above replacement levels.
Correlation does not imply causation.
Simple natural law dictates that a species can only reach a population allowed by the surrounding resources. When it overpopulates, starvation reduces the levels back to a managable rate.
So, if X food is being produced, and Y people starve daily, and the population is increased moreso daily by Z from those who are not starving, then no matter how much you increase X, eventually you will hit a state where the population (as Z's reproducation has increased), once again, is starving and Y shoots back up.
Thus, world hunger and possibly the demise of humanity can not be solved by simply producing more food and distributing it more efficiently, but only stopped by consciously controlling our population.
(Don't ask me how we do that though)
She'll be moving to Russia, and time-traveling back a hundred years, so she can coincide in a time where people actually used the word 'Tzar'.
Um, does many thousands of people starving daily due to rampant overpopulation count?
What about the thousands of asthma sufferers plagued by air pollution?
perhaps these only qualify as gloom...
And what about the giant lizard that keeps mutating and attacking Japan...?
What if our dam destroys their dam? Our survival is dependant on the ecosystem, whether we like it or not.
Damn, this dam stuff is confusing!
I generally agree with you, (creationists drive me mad) but progress is best done in moderation and after it has been debated thoroughly, since what some once called 'progress', others called 'holocaust'.
does not quite capture the upside to our potential future aims.
Upside to armaggedon? I'd like to hear it!
AOL already has 5 more suits, wow, they're really piling them on, since just earlier today it was reported that they had five initial suits!