Doesn't that just lead to tyranny and despotism? War is not always The Good Guys vs. the Bad Guys, right? In other words, people come to blows ( or explosions ) because they have a serious disagreement. If one party could always shut the other down, no matter how serious the issue, what does that mean for human freedom?
Flashcards. I would have never gotten through grade school math without them. I have terrible ( self-diagnosed ) ADD, procrastination, and aversion to doing anything difficult and repetitive. Math was beyond me. I would have flunked out of grade school if my mom hadn't sat me down with the flash cards every night.
Rational people disagree about the meaning of the 4th amendment. This has been debated for like the past 100 years. The ACLU has a view on gun rights that I don't agree with, and a lot of other people don't. That doesn't make them a hypocrite because they disagree with me. Let me ask this: have the ACLU actively fought against individual rights? Or have they just avoided supporting individual rights cases? ( That's not a rhetorical question, I honestly don't know ).
Everybody is a hypocrite on something. That's no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater. There's plenty of good that the ACLU is doing, and if they don't do it, there's not much of anybody else doing it. Don't cut your nose to spite your face, I say. Like I said, we have the NRA supporting individual gun rights, but who is supporting the first and fourth amendment ( amongst others )? The ACLU.
Darwinism is cruel... Nature does things for a reason.
Narture wants to be anthropomorphized;)
It nature is so cruel and barbaric, then for what reason did it evolve human beings who feel sympathy, empathy, are able to learn, and practice healing arts?
No kidding. This is like saying more people are heading to a bar or coffeehouse than to a library. Human beings are social creatures; they will want to hang out and chat more than they will want to riffle through all the world's knowledge.
Can't we just put a mechanical fuel-line kill switch somewhere in the car? Like a covered button in the dash panel or glove box? No fuel, no go, right?
But anyways, reading from the statistics, there's been some 50 out-of-control Toyotas for how many millions on the road? It sounds like the expense of installing them would not be worth of. But the PR effects or re-assuring the public might make it worth it.
Just before dawn the next day, skies all over planet Earth erupted in red, green, and purple auroras so brilliant that newspapers could be read as easily as in daylight. Indeed, stunning auroras pulsated even at near tropical latitudes over Cuba, the Bahamas, Jamaica, El Salvador, and Hawaii.
Say that an event like this were to happen, say, in the year 2012, just as Wired told us.
What would that look like? With the world electrical grid shorting out, and people going outside and looking up into the sky, and seeing a giant aurora snaking its way across the celestial dome... what would that look like? Oh, I don't know, maybe a giant rainbow serpent in the sky, a Quetzalcoatl if you will, returning, as he promised, in 2012, the transition from the 4th to the 5th Mayan ages?
Especially not for people who can't even afford a toilet today.
Actually, small recurring costs are much easier for poor people than large one-time expenses. If you have a wad of cash, you spend it on something really important, like your child's school clothing or your mom's medicine, no a toilet that will break and connect to a broken sewer system when you can shit in the backyard sewer for free. These bags are affordable, can be used to make fertilizer, and when you don't have money for them at the moment, you go back to shitting in a hole in the ground, instead of shitting in a hole in the ground staring at a broken, stopped-up toilet that you wasted $40 on.
The article on Relativity describes the ether as an 'imaginary medium' on page 2. I didn't know that the reality of ether was suspect at the time. My education in the history of science up until this point was misleading:)
And regulation never stopped them. We have plenty of regulations on banks, and take a look at their condition right now. Regulation didn't prevent the recent collapses.
This is the exact opposite of the truth. In the late 1998, congress moved to weaken the Glass-Steagall act, which prevented banks from engaged in the risky securities trading that got them in trouble and caused this recent financial implosion. The Glass-Steagall act was passed after Great Depression when banks got themselves into exactly the same sorts of trouble they are in right now.
In short, regulations kept exactly the situation we're in now from happening for some 70 years. Yes, regulations do work. Not just any arbitrary hammerings, but rules specifically designed to prevent bad, foolish things from happening. If the Glass-Steagall act had been in effect this whole time, we would have never had the tarp and never had to bail out the banks. The old rules didn't apply any longer, and the bankers went nuts dreaming up ever more clever schemes to make money out of nothing. The banking sector lacked regulation.
To be totally fair, rich people should pay less property tax than poor people, but that's obviously not going to happen, and this situation exists in NH as well as every other state.
How would this be more fair? Is property tax not a 'flat tax' in NH? Or do people in NH pay a greater percentage of property tax if they own more property? I can understand fair being the same percentage, but less? I don't get it.
A response that is informed by the dumbness of municipal, county, and state tax structures.
Paying for police and fire with property taxes is normal for probably every state, and obviously these services aren't limited to residents.
Different states, counties and municipalities have different taxes which funds different things in different ways. GP intimated that NH has no income or sales tax, so that the only people who pay for state services are those who actually use those services. In a lot of other places, that isn't true. For instance, in Ohio, schools are funded by local property taxes and the state lottery. Not everyone who owns property has a kid in public school, nor does everyone who plays the lottery. So GP might think Ohio is a little unfair to childless homeowners and lottery-players.
New Hampshire believes in an environment where... property taxes pay for police and fire protection...
So if I'm visiting New Hampsire, and I get mugged or pickpocketed on the street, or my car bursts into flame on the highway, I should not expect to call any authorities and have them respond?
can you point to such a society for me please? this is a pleasant fiction to support your bankrupt thinking, as this country doesn't even exist
You are incorrect. While the largest such country ceased to exist 1991, there are a few that still exist, including North Korea and Cuba.
You are mistaking 'communist' for 'liberal' or 'socialist'.
Look at most of Europe*. Germany, a Social Democratic country, is doing quite well in the midst of this 'global catastrophe', and the average German isn't losing their livelihood, health insurance, or home. Scandinavia has been plugging along for almost a century now as states with cradle-to-grave socialism, in some of the most inhospitable climes with few resources, and people generally still get up and go to work every day.
Greece is in deep shit, but if you cook the books, the system fails no matter what. Britain is having a tough time, but they went through the same conservative privitization scam with Thatcher that we went through with Reagan, and they are more or less in the same place we are.
If we want to put a hundred pounds on each steer, then that means each steer needs half a ton of feed.
But the elderly, who live on fixed incomes... poor families who depend on food stamps... or just a college student burdened with debt who wants to be able to take his girlfriend to a steakhouse for a special occasion... all of these people are seriously impacted.
This is why you just eat some vegetarian food. I love a good steak as much as the next guy, but at this point, it seems that the economic/ecological arguments win out. What a waste of societies' resources to turn 1.5 tons of food into 100 pounds of food.
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Doesn't that just lead to tyranny and despotism? War is not always The Good Guys vs. the Bad Guys, right? In other words, people come to blows ( or explosions ) because they have a serious disagreement. If one party could always shut the other down, no matter how serious the issue, what does that mean for human freedom?
Flashcards. I would have never gotten through grade school math without them. I have terrible ( self-diagnosed ) ADD, procrastination, and aversion to doing anything difficult and repetitive. Math was beyond me. I would have flunked out of grade school if my mom hadn't sat me down with the flash cards every night.
Rational people disagree about the meaning of the 4th amendment. This has been debated for like the past 100 years. The ACLU has a view on gun rights that I don't agree with, and a lot of other people don't. That doesn't make them a hypocrite because they disagree with me. Let me ask this: have the ACLU actively fought against individual rights? Or have they just avoided supporting individual rights cases? ( That's not a rhetorical question, I honestly don't know ).
Everybody is a hypocrite on something. That's no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater. There's plenty of good that the ACLU is doing, and if they don't do it, there's not much of anybody else doing it. Don't cut your nose to spite your face, I say. Like I said, we have the NRA supporting individual gun rights, but who is supporting the first and fourth amendment ( amongst others )? The ACLU.
I'm of a practical mindset. The NRA can look out for the second amendment. The ALCU looks out for the other 26. Rational people can disagree.
Darwinism is cruel... Nature does things for a reason.
Narture wants to be anthropomorphized ;)
It nature is so cruel and barbaric, then for what reason did it evolve human beings who feel sympathy, empathy, are able to learn, and practice healing arts?
No kidding. This is like saying more people are heading to a bar or coffeehouse than to a library. Human beings are social creatures; they will want to hang out and chat more than they will want to riffle through all the world's knowledge.
How do you know this isn't happening?
"In time of war, when truth is so precious, it must be attended by a bodyguard of lies" -- Winston Churchill
...might want to think about wearing a helmet on a regular basis.
What kind of conclusion do you think they would come to?
I'm sure that's what the Spanish thought in 1492 too.
Are you kidding me? They were looking for a better trade route to India, to avoid sailing all around Africa.
Anyway, the fine nation of Uganda has the .ug TLD. All we have to do is obtain dr.ug and set up a URL shortening service... What could be more logical?
Dr. Uganda?
Can't we just put a mechanical fuel-line kill switch somewhere in the car? Like a covered button in the dash panel or glove box? No fuel, no go, right?
But anyways, reading from the statistics, there's been some 50 out-of-control Toyotas for how many millions on the road? It sounds like the expense of installing them would not be worth of. But the PR effects or re-assuring the public might make it worth it.
Dam, I blew that one.
Here's the link to the Wired article on coronal mass ejection in 2012.
Just before dawn the next day, skies all over planet Earth erupted in red, green, and purple auroras so brilliant that newspapers could be read as easily as in daylight. Indeed, stunning auroras pulsated even at near tropical latitudes over Cuba, the Bahamas, Jamaica, El Salvador, and Hawaii.
Say that an event like this were to happen, say, in the year 2012, just as Wired told us.
What would that look like? With the world electrical grid shorting out, and people going outside and looking up into the sky, and seeing a giant aurora snaking its way across the celestial dome... what would that look like? Oh, I don't know, maybe a giant rainbow serpent in the sky, a Quetzalcoatl if you will, returning, as he promised, in 2012, the transition from the 4th to the 5th Mayan ages?
;D
Especially not for people who can't even afford a toilet today.
Actually, small recurring costs are much easier for poor people than large one-time expenses. If you have a wad of cash, you spend it on something really important, like your child's school clothing or your mom's medicine, no a toilet that will break and connect to a broken sewer system when you can shit in the backyard sewer for free. These bags are affordable, can be used to make fertilizer, and when you don't have money for them at the moment, you go back to shitting in a hole in the ground, instead of shitting in a hole in the ground staring at a broken, stopped-up toilet that you wasted $40 on.
The article on Relativity describes the ether as an 'imaginary medium' on page 2. I didn't know that the reality of ether was suspect at the time. My education in the history of science up until this point was misleading :)
Why do Wikipedia Articles Vary So Much In Quality?
My initial reaction was because it's a free encyclopedia that anybody can edit.
And regulation never stopped them. We have plenty of regulations on banks, and take a look at their condition right now. Regulation didn't prevent the recent collapses.
This is the exact opposite of the truth. In the late 1998, congress moved to weaken the Glass-Steagall act, which prevented banks from engaged in the risky securities trading that got them in trouble and caused this recent financial implosion. The Glass-Steagall act was passed after Great Depression when banks got themselves into exactly the same sorts of trouble they are in right now.
In short, regulations kept exactly the situation we're in now from happening for some 70 years. Yes, regulations do work. Not just any arbitrary hammerings, but rules specifically designed to prevent bad, foolish things from happening. If the Glass-Steagall act had been in effect this whole time, we would have never had the tarp and never had to bail out the banks. The old rules didn't apply any longer, and the bankers went nuts dreaming up ever more clever schemes to make money out of nothing. The banking sector lacked regulation.
To be totally fair, rich people should pay less property tax than poor people, but that's obviously not going to happen, and this situation exists in NH as well as every other state.
How would this be more fair? Is property tax not a 'flat tax' in NH? Or do people in NH pay a greater percentage of property tax if they own more property? I can understand fair being the same percentage, but less? I don't get it.
What kind of dumb response is this?
A response that is informed by the dumbness of municipal, county, and state tax structures.
Paying for police and fire with property taxes is normal for probably every state, and obviously these services aren't limited to residents.
Different states, counties and municipalities have different taxes which funds different things in different ways. GP intimated that NH has no income or sales tax, so that the only people who pay for state services are those who actually use those services. In a lot of other places, that isn't true. For instance, in Ohio, schools are funded by local property taxes and the state lottery. Not everyone who owns property has a kid in public school, nor does everyone who plays the lottery. So GP might think Ohio is a little unfair to childless homeowners and lottery-players.
You've piqued my interest. I'm going to read more about this 'citizen legislature' you describe ;)
New Hampshire believes in an environment where... property taxes pay for police and fire protection...
So if I'm visiting New Hampsire, and I get mugged or pickpocketed on the street, or my car bursts into flame on the highway, I should not expect to call any authorities and have them respond?
can you point to such a society for me please? this is a pleasant fiction to support your bankrupt thinking, as this country doesn't even exist
You are incorrect. While the largest such country ceased to exist 1991, there are a few that still exist, including North Korea and Cuba.
You are mistaking 'communist' for 'liberal' or 'socialist'.
Look at most of Europe*. Germany, a Social Democratic country, is doing quite well in the midst of this 'global catastrophe', and the average German isn't losing their livelihood, health insurance, or home. Scandinavia has been plugging along for almost a century now as states with cradle-to-grave socialism, in some of the most inhospitable climes with few resources, and people generally still get up and go to work every day.
Greece is in deep shit, but if you cook the books, the system fails no matter what. Britain is having a tough time, but they went through the same conservative privitization scam with Thatcher that we went through with Reagan, and they are more or less in the same place we are.
As a homebrewer, I know that oxidation of beer can give it "cardboardy" flavors, so this technology is probably useless for beer.
Given what people are already drinking outside of the home/micro-brew scene, I don't think this will be much of a problem.
OK, well instead of growing tons of grass for cattle food, we could grow tons of human-friendly food plants.
If we want to put a hundred pounds on each steer, then that means each steer needs half a ton of feed.
But the elderly, who live on fixed incomes... poor families who depend on food stamps... or just a college student burdened with debt who wants to be able to take his girlfriend to a steakhouse for a special occasion... all of these people are seriously impacted.
This is why you just eat some vegetarian food. I love a good steak as much as the next guy, but at this point, it seems that the economic/ecological arguments win out. What a waste of societies' resources to turn 1.5 tons of food into 100 pounds of food.