Your opinion about what is and is not good child rearing is irrelevant, along with everyone elses. Regardless of how they are reared, those children ARE the human race, and they ARE the social fabric. Those who tend them are better attuned to the future than you are. Life is brutal sometimes.
It has nothing to do with prejudice against peoples sexual activities. I care nothing for who puts what in who's whatever, just like I don't care what sort of freaky shit married couples do in their spare time.
But I do think marriages should be annulled if they don't lead to childbirth inside of a reasonable window of time, 2-3 years perhaps, and marriage applications that will not cannot lead to childbirth should be denied.
I'd also like to see people who get divorced be forced to repay all the tax breaks they ever got as a consequence of their marriage.
All this romanticised bullshit that surrounds marriage is ridiculous. Marriage is a deal between two people and the rest of the community. You go make babies to wipe my ass when I'm old, and I'll subsidize your relationship. And please, do go make those babies, I make good money and can afford to subsidize quite a few of you.
Otherwise, go shack up and shut up, and don't bother asking for my vote, because I trust the guy who's got a genuine concern for the well being of his grandkids more than I do you. End of story.
Either you're a part of the ongoing circle of life, or you're not, and if you're not, you'll be treated differently from those that are, and that's a good thing.
It doesn't matter if you're gay, or born sterile, or just decided you couldn't be bothered to have kids. You should still be treated as an outsider who is only tolerated if they don't screw things up for those who are a part of the ongoing fabric of humanity.
That doesn't mean people should go out of their way to persecute such folks, but it does mean they should be kept away from positions of authority. They lack a material connection to the future, and their motives are suspect. They lack the biological mechanisms that prevent toxic decadence in a human culture.
The blitz worked because the common man on the ground supported what the Nazi's were trying to do. Which is deal with the bankers and capitalists who were turning entire nations into slave camps.
The same thing happened with the Knights Templar. The prince of France worked together with the Catholic church to exterminate them for Usery after the knights found the secrets of modern banking in the temple in Jerusalum, established a conspiracy and started taking control of entire nation-states.
Incidentally, that's also why the west always ends up in conflict with the nations of Islam. They nip the problem in the bud by forbidding Usery. Christians just sort of turn a blind eye till things get really bad, then have a bloodbath.
Morality can be argued till you're blue in the face... but at the end of the day, anything predictable is deserved, and these blood baths are a predictable response to the actions of evil men.
He's not describing exterminating the enemy. He's describing sending the meat-heads to kill each other off so they won't fuck things up for the rest of us. And that IS the true purpose of war. To weed out the violent meat-heads and hopefully prevent them from propagating their genetic material.
The problem with modern war is that solders come home alive.
South Korea is the new Hong Kong, and it provides a place to deal with the west while North Korea provides a buffer zone to prevent cultural influence. The leadership in China and the western nations all like the situation.
Mesh networking is a proven technology that has no central point of failure. This is a site full of outraged nerds.
So... get off your ass and help render the Internet obsolete. The problem isn't the politics. The problem is the infrastructure, and the solution is ready, waiting to be deployed.
Ayn Rand was right when she said that eventually, the people who are productive will abandon the masses who rely upon them. Only mistake she made was, it's the capitalists with their silly green tickets who are going to be abandoned.
Social groups deter any kind of radical thought or behavior. That's the groupthink phenomenon. The larger the group, the stronger the effect. That's why creativity never thrives in large organizations, and that's the reason the most creative social construct is the single person who does not need to compromise his or her ideas for the harmony of the group.
I roll my eyes every time I hear an organization of thousands of people is proclaiming it fosters innovation (or diversity, but that's another story).
Well, what does wikipedia say about innovation?
Innovation differs from invention in that innovation refers to the use of a new idea or method, whereas invention refers more directly to the creation of the idea or method itself.
So, there you have it. Innovation is not radical. Innovation is not revolutionary. Innovation is not invention. Innovation is taking a bunch of other peoples inventions and gluing them together in ways that are interesting to a wide audience. Innovation is the factory work of the intellectual realm. If you want to be a good innovator, it's more important to understand ordinary folks than it is to understand the secret workings of the universe.
Big companies are innovative because they consume the small companies with the inventive ideas and order their hordes of worker bees to start sticking those ideas onto existing products.
Or that I could design a programming language that compiled plain English instead of (what seemed to be) needlessly arcane languages we were forced to learn.
I did that once. It didn't consume just any old English prose, it used a subset, but it was good enough that I could write a 40 page requirements document in that subset that read like plain English, get it signed off, then feed it into the interpreter and spit out 20k lines of code for further editing. Saved a lot of time, effort and money, and got me a raise. Stupid ideas kids have...
The same reason I do... Because well over half my local taxes, which is a HUGE percentage of my annual income, is taken from me to pay for teaching kids I don't know and aren't my responsibility.
Someday you will be their responsibility. That's when you pay the piper.
I didn't suggest that long marches will sterilize your cut. Try reading the comment first:
Very useful if you eat something harsh enough to kill your gut bacteria during a 12 week overland march when you're too far to replenish them in the traditional way by shaking hands with strangers and touching your lip.
IF you kill your gut bacteria AND you are surrounded by your fellows, THEN you can make do without your appendix BECAUSE you can rejuvenate your gut by shaking hands and touching your mouth.
IF you kill your gut bacteria AND you are carrying a message to a remote settlement on foot for 12 weeks THEN you cannot rejuvenate your gut from your fellows but you're going to be ok BECAUSE you can rejuvenate your gut from the culture in your appendix.
IF you pay me enough, I will conduct a google search for you so you can see the substantiating research. OTHERWISE, I'm not your student. Go find the research yourself.
Ahh sales... how I miss it. When you have merch to sell, you can talk to ANYONE, because you have that most wonderful of things, even better than an introduction... you have a pretense. You can walk up to any pretty lady you see and start a conversation if you've got a pretense in your pocketses.
Gets tiring running around in "ON" mode all day though.
There are over-the-counter Lactobacillus acidophilus tablets that contain cultured bacteria already. Why in the world would anyone do it the way you describe? I suppose there are other helpful bacteria in your gut, but that seems to be the most significant variety in terms of its effect on everything from serum cholesterol levels to lactose intolerance....
They're also useful if you want to make plastic out of potatoes.
Interesting factoid: Humans are born with a "gut bacteria" backup solution. It's called your appendix. Very useful if you eat something harsh enough to kill your gut bacteria during a 12 week overland march when you're too far to replenish them in the traditional way by shaking hands with strangers and touching your lip.
Good question. What is the proper way to deal with criminal tribalists who engage in aggressive war?
Lets be realistic... we're not talking about a race of people with big noses here... we're talking about a group of people united around an ideology who set themselves above the rest of humanity and demonstrate their commitment to that believe it by either directly engaging in mass murder and rampant economic exploitation or facilitating it.
If your criticism is not tied to some constructive input what value does it have?
Tell that to art critics, and all professors who ever had criticism over works of literature. And Siskel & Ebert while you're at it. You're operating on all kinds of fallacies here... Just admit your bias.
You were SO close to an epiphany there... but then you lost it.
Right. The Amish are out there being communists. You fucking moron.
It was called community values, and America USED to have it, just like they USED to require that a corporation demonstrate on an ongoing basis that it served the public good to exist.
It always amazes me when Americans say that communism failed when they've been fighting it as a nation for over 50 years and now have their lips locked in a death grip on China's teat. It's like there are stupid pills in their water supply.
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Your opinion about what is and is not good child rearing is irrelevant, along with everyone elses. Regardless of how they are reared, those children ARE the human race, and they ARE the social fabric. Those who tend them are better attuned to the future than you are. Life is brutal sometimes.
It has nothing to do with prejudice against peoples sexual activities. I care nothing for who puts what in who's whatever, just like I don't care what sort of freaky shit married couples do in their spare time.
But I do think marriages should be annulled if they don't lead to childbirth inside of a reasonable window of time, 2-3 years perhaps, and marriage applications that will not cannot lead to childbirth should be denied.
I'd also like to see people who get divorced be forced to repay all the tax breaks they ever got as a consequence of their marriage.
All this romanticised bullshit that surrounds marriage is ridiculous. Marriage is a deal between two people and the rest of the community. You go make babies to wipe my ass when I'm old, and I'll subsidize your relationship. And please, do go make those babies, I make good money and can afford to subsidize quite a few of you.
Otherwise, go shack up and shut up, and don't bother asking for my vote, because I trust the guy who's got a genuine concern for the well being of his grandkids more than I do you. End of story.
It doesn't matter if it's a choice or not.
Either you're a part of the ongoing circle of life, or you're not, and if you're not, you'll be treated differently from those that are, and that's a good thing.
It doesn't matter if you're gay, or born sterile, or just decided you couldn't be bothered to have kids. You should still be treated as an outsider who is only tolerated if they don't screw things up for those who are a part of the ongoing fabric of humanity.
That doesn't mean people should go out of their way to persecute such folks, but it does mean they should be kept away from positions of authority. They lack a material connection to the future, and their motives are suspect. They lack the biological mechanisms that prevent toxic decadence in a human culture.
What Orwell had to say about English was a lot more useful
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_and_the_English_Language
English doesn't make you stupid, but it sure makes it easier...
Uh-huh. Good luck with the credit crunch you'll get after outlawing charging interest.
Thank you.
Good luck with the collapse of your civilization.
Don't forget when the Canadians burned the White House down.
When are we going to do that again? I want to come!
The blitz worked because the common man on the ground supported what the Nazi's were trying to do. Which is deal with the bankers and capitalists who were turning entire nations into slave camps.
The same thing happened with the Knights Templar. The prince of France worked together with the Catholic church to exterminate them for Usery after the knights found the secrets of modern banking in the temple in Jerusalum, established a conspiracy and started taking control of entire nation-states.
Incidentally, that's also why the west always ends up in conflict with the nations of Islam. They nip the problem in the bud by forbidding Usery. Christians just sort of turn a blind eye till things get really bad, then have a bloodbath.
Morality can be argued till you're blue in the face... but at the end of the day, anything predictable is deserved, and these blood baths are a predictable response to the actions of evil men.
He's not describing exterminating the enemy. He's describing sending the meat-heads to kill each other off so they won't fuck things up for the rest of us. And that IS the true purpose of war. To weed out the violent meat-heads and hopefully prevent them from propagating their genetic material.
The problem with modern war is that solders come home alive.
South Korea is the new Hong Kong, and it provides a place to deal with the west while North Korea provides a buffer zone to prevent cultural influence. The leadership in China and the western nations all like the situation.
Thank you.
And truly, the English language is and always has been set in stone, handed over by God himself to the early man.
Wait, no, that's not it: "it's" was the possessive of "it" - and the contradiction of "it is" was "'tis".
So, "it is" and "tis" are in opposition?
If they can't enforce a law, it doesn't exist.
Mesh networking is a proven technology that has no central point of failure. This is a site full of outraged nerds.
So... get off your ass and help render the Internet obsolete. The problem isn't the politics. The problem is the infrastructure, and the solution is ready, waiting to be deployed.
Ayn Rand was right when she said that eventually, the people who are productive will abandon the masses who rely upon them. Only mistake she made was, it's the capitalists with their silly green tickets who are going to be abandoned.
Social groups deter any kind of radical thought or behavior. That's the groupthink phenomenon. The larger the group, the stronger the effect. That's why creativity never thrives in large organizations, and that's the reason the most creative social construct is the single person who does not need to compromise his or her ideas for the harmony of the group.
I roll my eyes every time I hear an organization of thousands of people is proclaiming it fosters innovation (or diversity, but that's another story).
Well, what does wikipedia say about innovation?
Innovation differs from invention in that innovation refers to the use of a new idea or method, whereas invention refers more directly to the creation of the idea or method itself.
So, there you have it. Innovation is not radical. Innovation is not revolutionary. Innovation is not invention. Innovation is taking a bunch of other peoples inventions and gluing them together in ways that are interesting to a wide audience. Innovation is the factory work of the intellectual realm. If you want to be a good innovator, it's more important to understand ordinary folks than it is to understand the secret workings of the universe.
Big companies are innovative because they consume the small companies with the inventive ideas and order their hordes of worker bees to start sticking those ideas onto existing products.
Or that I could design a programming language that compiled plain English instead of (what seemed to be) needlessly arcane languages we were forced to learn.
I did that once. It didn't consume just any old English prose, it used a subset, but it was good enough that I could write a 40 page requirements document in that subset that read like plain English, get it signed off, then feed it into the interpreter and spit out 20k lines of code for further editing. Saved a lot of time, effort and money, and got me a raise.
Stupid ideas kids have...
The same reason I do... Because well over half my local taxes, which is a HUGE percentage of my annual income, is taken from me to pay for teaching kids I don't know and aren't my responsibility.
Someday you will be their responsibility. That's when you pay the piper.
I didn't suggest that long marches will sterilize your cut. Try reading the comment first:
Very useful if you eat something harsh enough to kill your gut bacteria during a 12 week overland march when you're too far to replenish them in the traditional way by shaking hands with strangers and touching your lip.
IF you kill your gut bacteria AND you are surrounded by your fellows, THEN you can make do without your appendix BECAUSE you can rejuvenate your gut by shaking hands and touching your mouth.
IF you kill your gut bacteria AND you are carrying a message to a remote settlement on foot for 12 weeks THEN you cannot rejuvenate your gut from your fellows but you're going to be ok BECAUSE you can rejuvenate your gut from the culture in your appendix.
IF you pay me enough, I will conduct a google search for you so you can see the substantiating research. OTHERWISE, I'm not your student. Go find the research yourself.
Ahh sales... how I miss it. When you have merch to sell, you can talk to ANYONE, because you have that most wonderful of things, even better than an introduction... you have a pretense. You can walk up to any pretty lady you see and start a conversation if you've got a pretense in your pocketses.
Gets tiring running around in "ON" mode all day though.
There are over-the-counter Lactobacillus acidophilus tablets that contain cultured bacteria already. Why in the world would anyone do it the way you describe? I suppose there are other helpful bacteria in your gut, but that seems to be the most significant variety in terms of its effect on everything from serum cholesterol levels to lactose intolerance....
They're also useful if you want to make plastic out of potatoes.
Interesting factoid: Humans are born with a "gut bacteria" backup solution. It's called your appendix. Very useful if you eat something harsh enough to kill your gut bacteria during a 12 week overland march when you're too far to replenish them in the traditional way by shaking hands with strangers and touching your lip.
Good question. What is the proper way to deal with criminal tribalists who engage in aggressive war?
Lets be realistic... we're not talking about a race of people with big noses here... we're talking about a group of people united around an ideology who set themselves above the rest of humanity and demonstrate their commitment to that believe it by either directly engaging in mass murder and rampant economic exploitation or facilitating it.
Statistics are like religion. They don't mean a damned thing, but you can rally people together with them, and that's useful at times.
I walk the walk, asshole.
Thank you for that
You are welcome.
Obviously that is the correct solution.
If your criticism is not tied to some constructive input what value does it have?
Tell that to art critics, and all professors who ever had criticism over works of literature. And Siskel & Ebert while you're at it. You're operating on all kinds of fallacies here... Just admit your bias.
You were SO close to an epiphany there... but then you lost it.
Right. The Amish are out there being communists. You fucking moron.
It was called community values, and America USED to have it, just like they USED to require that a corporation demonstrate on an ongoing basis that it served the public good to exist.
It always amazes me when Americans say that communism failed when they've been fighting it as a nation for over 50 years and now have their lips locked in a death grip on China's teat. It's like there are stupid pills in their water supply.