Is trading their traditions for money also part of their traditional culture?
It's part of the more modern aboriginal culture everywhere in the world. There wouldn't be much attendance if they opened a casino, and there isn't much opportunity for smuggling.
Skilled construction jobs are way up, and they are largely union. Therefore, unions create larger markets.
False conclusion. Demand for construction is way up; therefore, construction jobs are way up. Construction jobs happen to be unionized, coincidentally.
Good for you being able to avoid responsibility to the point where you can- I've got a mortgage and a family to pay for.
Being a proper nerd, I have no family obligations, no mortgage, and a $425K rainy-day fund.
You're not worth every penney- you're worth the $2.50/hr your job can be done in India for.
If someone in India can do my job for $2.50/hr, then bring it on, baby! Just like during the dot-com land rush in the US, most of the Indian IT workers are basically incompetent. Outsourcers are beginning to figure this out.
But, regardless, after things settle out, if I can't do my job better than anyone else in the world, then I don't deserve it.
I am still curious as to how a scientist can believe there is no God.
This seems like a very strange comment. Semantically, there is a very strong contrast between "believe" and "have absolute blind faith". For example, I believe that there is no God, but I don't have absolute blind faith about anything, including there being no God. I'm an Athiestic Agnositic. Something that I am curious to know is how any scientist could be anything other than this, as this is the only intellectually honest position on the subject in light of the rational analysis of all available evidence on reality and human weaknesses.
I thought the best you could get with the scientific method was that you haven't found Him yet.
You almost seem to presume that a scientist would waste his time looking for God. I haven't been looking for monkeys flying out of my butt either. But, if you have at your disposal some notion of a scientifically verifiable means to prove the existence of God, let 'er rip!
Gnostic texts - all which contradict each other (I swear these guys were the original fan fiction writers or something) - makes it difficult to take them seriously for anyone who actually studies them.
And, of course, the content of the Bible comes from exactly the same types of souces, only it has the royal penguin piss. It'd be dangerous for the church if religious people ever figured this out.
The Society of Biblical Literature is no different in these respects, especially as more and more fragments of apocryiphal and gnostic texts continue to be found.
You'd think that religious organizations would want these documents to be lost forever.
Without legislation to forbid collusion (which doesn't even work when it exists), businesses are just as likely to cooperate to get the best profit as they are to compete until they're all making razor thin margins and on the verge of starvation.
The gasoline companies don't seem to agree with you. They all have record profits at the end of the quarters in which they all simultaneously raise their prices sharply. Clearly, their costs haven't increased in proportion their revenues. They are all in collusion, if only implicit, that nobody will rock the boat. It seems that they prefer windfall profits over starving on razor-thin margins. I'll bet that the health-care industry operates the same way.
Wait, I thought the free market and privatization was supposed to make things cheaper? While state-run systems like the British NHS were supposed to be horribly inefficient and expensive?
Privatization does make things cheaper unless you are dealing with a monopolized market in which all of the players are in collusion to maintain artificially high prices, like the gasoline industry. Then, they can charge as much as they want and all of the players profit.
In a state-run system, profit margins aren't necessary at every step in the process.
It seems that people who slam the free market or capitalism invariably are always actually criticizing the LACK of a free market.
And the latest gas prices are due completely to the rise in price of a barrel of oil.
When all of the companies in an industry can spike their prices and reap windfall profits, that is definitive proof that the industry is monopolized, that all of the players are involved in a collusion racket, and that the industry is in desperate need of perp walks and pricing regulation.
But loyalty is something I do feel owed as it's in return for my loyalty. But I guess old-school notions of loyalty just don't exist anymore - not when there are dollars in question.
And I feel that since I have bought so many boxes of Mini Wheats in the past that I should get an 80% discount on them in the future. But I guess old-school notions of loyalty just don't exist anymore - not when there are dollars in question.
I'll bet most car owners think this idea should apply to gasoline, too.
He lays out how environmental movements are holding back development in the third world (keeping poor people's living standards low) with their misguided policies.
Social-activist types are always viciously opposed to the only credible means of achieving thier goals. It's a defining characteristic. It kind of makes me wonder what their true goals actually are.
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Is trading their traditions for money also part of their traditional culture?
It's part of the more modern aboriginal culture everywhere in the world. There wouldn't be much attendance if they opened a casino, and there isn't much opportunity for smuggling.
and have a bunch of respect for people who know how to turn a shotgun shell or rifle bullet into dinner.
Kinda sounds like a point-and-click interface to me.
Let's see, 400 seconds - 28.6 seconds .... works out to about 50 years. Still.
When Goddard demonstrated his first rockets, it was widely reported that he missed the moon by only 250,000 miles.
They foster whatever you want them to foster.
No, they foster whatever the average worker wants. I'd guess that he wants to be overpaid for mediocre work.
Skilled construction jobs are way up, and they are largely union. Therefore, unions create larger markets.
False conclusion. Demand for construction is way up; therefore, construction jobs are way up. Construction jobs happen to be unionized, coincidentally.
Good for you being able to avoid responsibility to the point where you can- I've got a mortgage and a family to pay for.
Being a proper nerd, I have no family obligations, no mortgage, and a $425K rainy-day fund.
You're not worth every penney- you're worth the $2.50/hr your job can be done in India for.
If someone in India can do my job for $2.50/hr, then bring it on, baby! Just like during the dot-com land rush in the US, most of the Indian IT workers are basically incompetent. Outsourcers are beginning to figure this out.
But, regardless, after things settle out, if I can't do my job better than anyone else in the world, then I don't deserve it.
Provably correct doesn't mean "good" .... and "I haven't bothered proving the sucker" doesn't mean crash and burn.
So how do you prove that the proof is correct? Is the proof itself longer than the program?
I am still curious as to how a scientist can believe there is no God.
This seems like a very strange comment. Semantically, there is a very strong contrast between "believe" and "have absolute blind faith". For example, I believe that there is no God, but I don't have absolute blind faith about anything, including there being no God. I'm an Athiestic Agnositic. Something that I am curious to know is how any scientist could be anything other than this, as this is the only intellectually honest position on the subject in light of the rational analysis of all available evidence on reality and human weaknesses.
I thought the best you could get with the scientific method was that you haven't found Him yet.
You almost seem to presume that a scientist would waste his time looking for God. I haven't been looking for monkeys flying out of my butt either. But, if you have at your disposal some notion of a scientifically verifiable means to prove the existence of God, let 'er rip!
But if Pat Robertson grew an inoperable tumor tomorrow, I imagine we'd discover pretty soon that God is A-OK with gene therapy.
ObDoonesbury.
Gnostic texts - all which contradict each other (I swear these guys were the original fan fiction writers or something) - makes it difficult to take them seriously for anyone who actually studies them.
And, of course, the content of the Bible comes from exactly the same types of souces, only it has the royal penguin piss. It'd be dangerous for the church if religious people ever figured this out.
The Society of Biblical Literature is no different in these respects, especially as more and more fragments of apocryiphal and gnostic texts continue to be found.
You'd think that religious organizations would want these documents to be lost forever.
And it's proven a superior survival mechanism in nature than being either a pure herbavore (which vegitarians obviously aspire to be)
Our legal system should take a lesson from nature and allow non-vegetarians to kill and eat vegetarians.
Happiness=money=buy more crap. America is so fixated on social climbing through salary that it's... sickening, really.
I'd bet that more Americans do social climbing through debt than salary. Conveniently, debt is more stress-inducing.
Without legislation to forbid collusion (which doesn't even work when it exists), businesses are just as likely to cooperate to get the best profit as they are to compete until they're all making razor thin margins and on the verge of starvation.
The gasoline companies don't seem to agree with you. They all have record profits at the end of the quarters in which they all simultaneously raise their prices sharply. Clearly, their costs haven't increased in proportion their revenues. They are all in collusion, if only implicit, that nobody will rock the boat. It seems that they prefer windfall profits over starving on razor-thin margins. I'll bet that the health-care industry operates the same way.
Wait, I thought the free market and privatization was supposed to make things cheaper? While state-run systems like the British NHS were supposed to be horribly inefficient and expensive?
Privatization does make things cheaper unless you are dealing with a monopolized market in which all of the players are in collusion to maintain artificially high prices, like the gasoline industry. Then, they can charge as much as they want and all of the players profit.
In a state-run system, profit margins aren't necessary at every step in the process.
It seems that people who slam the free market or capitalism invariably are always actually criticizing the LACK of a free market.
I'd bet there would be no shortage of volunteers for a one-way mission to Mars.
Genuine Advantage program in the US, Australia, UK, Malaysia and NZ
Phew! Canada dodges a bullet.
*smack*
I believe the correct sound effect is:
*smack upside yo' head*
Right now, God is killing mums and dogs because he has to.
And the latest gas prices are due completely to the rise in price of a barrel of oil.
When all of the companies in an industry can spike their prices and reap windfall profits, that is definitive proof that the industry is monopolized, that all of the players are involved in a collusion racket, and that the industry is in desperate need of perp walks and pricing regulation.
But loyalty is something I do feel owed as it's in return for my loyalty. But I guess old-school notions of loyalty just don't exist anymore - not when there are dollars in question.
And I feel that since I have bought so many boxes of Mini Wheats in the past that I should get an 80% discount on them in the future. But I guess old-school notions of loyalty just don't exist anymore - not when there are dollars in question.
I'll bet most car owners think this idea should apply to gasoline, too.
Good people cost money.
Heck even bad people cost money.
But Americans cost the most money.
Dell should outsource to Canada, eh?
Or maybe an Australian accent on the phone would be more fun.
IFPI stands for "International Federation of the Phonograph Industry"?
Pornography Industry? I though they loved the Web!
Sir, I think that you speak out of arrogance rather than understanding.
My understanding is that water flows downhill. Please correct me if I'm wrong about this.
He lays out how environmental movements are holding back development in the third world (keeping poor people's living standards low) with their misguided policies.
Social-activist types are always viciously opposed to the only credible means of achieving thier goals. It's a defining characteristic. It kind of makes me wonder what their true goals actually are.