You know that's one of the original reasons we went from the Articles of Confederation to the Constitution?
One of the articles under the constitution has the Federal Government to dictate inter-state finances, and this is the reason; because initially under the AoC states would increase tariffs like mad to help their local farmers or whatever have you. And you point out the flaw perfectly, no money would move around and certain states would probably flourish and others would get hammered because they can't supply everything for themselves.
I completely agree with you, from simply changing my eating habits, I lost 20 lbs in like 2 months. And that was doing no exercise, if I had worked out at the same time, I'd probably be a healthy 180 instead of a uncomfortable 200. It's amazing if you cut back on how much you eat, after a week of doing it, your body is used to it, and you don't even feel hungry most of the time anymore.
You know.. you CAN watch the Colbert Report on Comedy Central's website too. They've even introduced a 'full episodes' option where it streams the whole episode with about 3 or 4, 15 to 30 second ads in it. So if you don't want to deal with Hulu, you can watch the most recent episode the day after it airs quite easily.
Is it just me, or does this just scream "I want to kill this bill by tacking on all sorts of unrelated things that are completely irrelevant so no one will vote for it, because everyone will hate something about it".
You're bound to have a couple sides that have more than one of the same color on it. Clearly, this would be solved in less than 42, someone (preferably someone at work, because it amuses me) figure it out.
He's telling the truth. You can trust me. I only ever lied about one thing. And that's that you can trust me. But honestly, you can trust me, I only tell the truth. Except that one time.
Mod parent up.
This really gets to the crux of the issue. If someone spends their whole life in a certain environment, how would they ever perceive what life was like outside of that environment? (See: Plato and the analogy of the Cave)
When Blacks were in Frace during World War II, they were treated by the French far better than they were back in the States. It was an eye opener, and while I know this is a correlation, we had the civil rights movement just twenty years later. While there are a lot of reasons for the Civil Rights movement, that isn't the point of this, what I'm saying is, I agree with the Parent poster, in that how would the average Chinese citizen know what life is like without complete government control? They've accepted it as reality.
He certainly isn't a Tolkien - his stories are much more personally involved, his magic more interesting, his geographical descriptions not quite so boring..:p
It's funny, I read Feist long before I read Tolkien, so all magic and awe of reading about those cultures for the first time was lost. Personally I found it to be a fair read, but it wasn't some jaw dropping enlightenment for me (but give props to Tolkien for thinking it all up). Going back and reading Feist now is actually really interesting though, go read up on what a 'Mary Sue' is and then go examine every single female character he had with the exception of the Acoma series. Feist is terrible about writing his female characters flat. (not their chests you perverts)
It's a difficult question of who has the power to police who, and you accurately grasped the crux of the problem. People are people no matter where you are, there is no "good" and "evil". We start active defense wars because we're afraid (we being the USA) of other new emerging powers as well as losing our economic and military superiority. This is kind of ironic as hell 'cause this brings me back to that old Star Wars quote (and it's probably much older than that) that, "the tighter you grip, the more star systems slip through your fingers". Anyways, I'm getting off subject.
The MAIN problem with letting some other countries get nuclear weapons (Iran for an example), is that we don't trust the leadership. I think the overall populous is easier to predict on whole, but the Presidant of Iran is something of an enigma, for example he doesn't believe in the halocaust. If it happened or not (I've met someone who was in a concentration camp, and that number tatoo they have is chilling to see) the fact he thinks it's a lie while Western countries had to fight in that war and even today has impact in our culture is a testament to why we just have a hard time inherently trusting him. You can't trust someone who challenges some of your basic believes.
Think back to your highschool debate class, if you can prove someone makes a bad arguement in one of their points you can challenge his whole arguement as being suspect. But again, I'd like to reitterate that people in general (Muslims, Jews, Baptists, whatever) are generally all the same and have the same interests and in my opinion could be trusted with nuclear tech. It's some of the leaders they have that scare the piss out of the West. (Same way Bush scares the piss out of the middle east)
"There have been several studies done verifying that listening to complex, harmonious music (i.e. beethoven, bach, mozart, iron maiden, gnr etc.) sparks intelligence and creativity, while listening to someone talk over a one beat drum machine (e.g. Nelly, NAS) lowers intelligence and dulls creativity. Playing a musical instrument is even better for you."
Good lord, I don't listen to that much hip hop and I find that offensive. Have you ever actually tried to listen to rap or hiphop and enjoyed it? Your opinion terrifies me with it's close mindedness. I had a roomate that listens to hip hop all the time, blasting it loud as he can, going down the street in his ride. He just graduated with a masters in Public Relations with honors. I find about half of the hip hop music out there to be inspiring, have amazingly clever beats and lyrics, and insightful to a culture I'll never be able to truely understand. I don't think rap or hip hop are the causes of lower intelligence (if this is the case), rather a symptom of a different caste in our contemporary society.
I remember hearing about some story where in the 70s or 80s they dumped a bunch of tires in some reef in the Atlantic hoping to revitalize it. Well, the tires then proceeded to poison all of the wildlife, not only hurting the sealife but killing it off completely. I really really hope they thought this through completely.
About a year ago, I was in a similar position to yours. I was at Penny Arcade expo, and they brought Uwe Boll out to speak about video game movies... in a hall full of people who hated him. I really didn't understand as I thought making video game movies was actually a good thing(I think I'm the only one who loved the Mario Bros movie). But after a bit of rough interviewing, he actually posed a few good points as to why he keeps making movies; people pay out the ass to see them. Can you fathom what it means to make a movie that makes millions?
That being said, right after he showed a trailer for a movie he was making, a very dry sort of humor, making fun of the USA and the war on terror. A good premise for a satire, but just.. TERRIBLY made, none of the jokes were funny in the trailer. My friend and I literally walked out, more important things to do at PAX than watch that.
The ignorance of Slashdot stuns me sometimes. I'm not saying you're a fool, you probably are extremely intelligent. But just because something is secure now, does not mean it is 100% secure and impenetrable by any means. If the majority that uses Windows now, used Linux instead, you can damn well be sure they'd have nearly as many ways to zombify those Linux boxes you're so proud of. We see this all the time, not too long ago, at that 'hacking' competition, they used a trick in Javascript to compromise the Vista system. Zomg evidence Just because it's Linux, doesn't mean it's foolproof, and I think somewhat shortsighted to assume it would be so much better.
I can verify this story too. I had a Chinese roomate, extremely smart kid, for two years. He had actually heard of the event, but it certainly wasn't taunt in schools in China! When he asked his parents about it, they verified the event, but obviously didn't like to talk about it.
Oh, you people crack me the fuck up. "WoW is addictive!" No. Cocaine is addictive; it causes physiological changes to your brain that cause you to want it more at the same time that it gives you less effect.
I've played WoW, I've played Counter Strike, I've played Quake 2, I've played Doom, I've played Duck hunt. I've also played a LOT more than just those games, but I will tell you now with empirical experience that you most certainly can become addicted to video games. I used to play for the rush, that killer amazing move you'd do and just be in awe. The 'high' if you would. I'm not kidding, not at all, that was the main reason I played games for a long time, now it's more social (lans) than anything.
But my main point is, I was addicted to that rush feeling from playing a good game, and yes you CAN be addicted to video games.
Mod parent the heck up. Dune is far too deep and detail oriented to be accurately transported to movie format. There's just so much stuff that needs to be explained. Ex. Kanley.
There's a *very* good reason we have a two party system each with one chosen candidate. To become president of the USA you have to win a majority of the electoral college votes. This means, 50% or more. What happens if three candidates get more than 20% but all less than 50%? It's decided in congress. There is presidence (a few times) in American history when this has been an issue before.
When John Quincy Adams was elected president in the 1800's for his first and only term, there were four candidates running for president under the only existing party, the Democratic-Republican party. Well, each person got less than 50%, but it was lead by Jackson who recieved 43% of the vote, and Adams got 31%. The number 4 guy dropped out, and the number 3 guy, just so happened to be the Speaker of the House. He cuts a deal with Adams, Clay (the number 3 guy) throws his support in Adams' corner and gets Secretary of State in the Cabinet out of the deal. Secretary of State was THE position to have for people wanting to become president in the future.
The reason, after 200 years, we're using a 2 party system is because our constitution demands a majority in the electoral college to win the election. Otherwise you get to deal with this wonderful issue of bargaining in the House for the presidancy. Similar thing happens in the election of 1932, the Whigs got 4 party candidates to run. If they had succeeded in keeping Van Buren from getting the electoral majority, they would have pooled their votes into one candidate to get the presidency for their party.
It really comes down to this, we'd need a constitutional amendment to change our 2 party system, and good luck getting that though congress. You'd need a united congress, which doesn't happen very often.
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You know that's one of the original reasons we went from the Articles of Confederation to the Constitution?
One of the articles under the constitution has the Federal Government to dictate inter-state finances, and this is the reason; because initially under the AoC states would increase tariffs like mad to help their local farmers or whatever have you. And you point out the flaw perfectly, no money would move around and certain states would probably flourish and others would get hammered because they can't supply everything for themselves.
Why the hell is this modded funny?
I completely agree with you, from simply changing my eating habits, I lost 20 lbs in like 2 months. And that was doing no exercise, if I had worked out at the same time, I'd probably be a healthy 180 instead of a uncomfortable 200. It's amazing if you cut back on how much you eat, after a week of doing it, your body is used to it, and you don't even feel hungry most of the time anymore.
You know.. you CAN watch the Colbert Report on Comedy Central's website too. They've even introduced a 'full episodes' option where it streams the whole episode with about 3 or 4, 15 to 30 second ads in it. So if you don't want to deal with Hulu, you can watch the most recent episode the day after it airs quite easily.
Is it just me, or does this just scream "I want to kill this bill by tacking on all sorts of unrelated things that are completely irrelevant so no one will vote for it, because everyone will hate something about it".
I see. So it's all a matter of weight ratios!
Kinky is when you use a few drops of wax... Perverse is when you use a set of candles!
CMON SLASHDOT!
You're bound to have a couple sides that have more than one of the same color on it. Clearly, this would be solved in less than 42, someone (preferably someone at work, because it amuses me) figure it out.
Slashdot needs an equation. It demands it.
He's telling the truth. You can trust me. I only ever lied about one thing. And that's that you can trust me. But honestly, you can trust me, I only tell the truth. Except that one time.
Mod parent up. This really gets to the crux of the issue. If someone spends their whole life in a certain environment, how would they ever perceive what life was like outside of that environment? (See: Plato and the analogy of the Cave)
When Blacks were in Frace during World War II, they were treated by the French far better than they were back in the States. It was an eye opener, and while I know this is a correlation, we had the civil rights movement just twenty years later. While there are a lot of reasons for the Civil Rights movement, that isn't the point of this, what I'm saying is, I agree with the Parent poster, in that how would the average Chinese citizen know what life is like without complete government control? They've accepted it as reality.
Note step number 5.
DUH!
Yes it is, so long as it's not my life!
It's funny, I read Feist long before I read Tolkien, so all magic and awe of reading about those cultures for the first time was lost. Personally I found it to be a fair read, but it wasn't some jaw dropping enlightenment for me (but give props to Tolkien for thinking it all up). Going back and reading Feist now is actually really interesting though, go read up on what a 'Mary Sue' is and then go examine every single female character he had with the exception of the Acoma series. Feist is terrible about writing his female characters flat. (not their chests you perverts)
I have it on good authority that the residents of Omicron Percii 8 will visit us sometime past 3000.
It's a difficult question of who has the power to police who, and you accurately grasped the crux of the problem. People are people no matter where you are, there is no "good" and "evil". We start active defense wars because we're afraid (we being the USA) of other new emerging powers as well as losing our economic and military superiority. This is kind of ironic as hell 'cause this brings me back to that old Star Wars quote (and it's probably much older than that) that, "the tighter you grip, the more star systems slip through your fingers". Anyways, I'm getting off subject.
The MAIN problem with letting some other countries get nuclear weapons (Iran for an example), is that we don't trust the leadership. I think the overall populous is easier to predict on whole, but the Presidant of Iran is something of an enigma, for example he doesn't believe in the halocaust. If it happened or not (I've met someone who was in a concentration camp, and that number tatoo they have is chilling to see) the fact he thinks it's a lie while Western countries had to fight in that war and even today has impact in our culture is a testament to why we just have a hard time inherently trusting him. You can't trust someone who challenges some of your basic believes.
Think back to your highschool debate class, if you can prove someone makes a bad arguement in one of their points you can challenge his whole arguement as being suspect. But again, I'd like to reitterate that people in general (Muslims, Jews, Baptists, whatever) are generally all the same and have the same interests and in my opinion could be trusted with nuclear tech. It's some of the leaders they have that scare the piss out of the West. (Same way Bush scares the piss out of the middle east)
Hmm, that would make me an S4N2 IT Systems Analyst. What's that make, 200k a year?
Some scientists played too much Red Alert in college.
Good lord, I don't listen to that much hip hop and I find that offensive. Have you ever actually tried to listen to rap or hiphop and enjoyed it? Your opinion terrifies me with it's close mindedness. I had a roomate that listens to hip hop all the time, blasting it loud as he can, going down the street in his ride. He just graduated with a masters in Public Relations with honors. I find about half of the hip hop music out there to be inspiring, have amazingly clever beats and lyrics, and insightful to a culture I'll never be able to truely understand. I don't think rap or hip hop are the causes of lower intelligence (if this is the case), rather a symptom of a different caste in our contemporary society.
I remember hearing about some story where in the 70s or 80s they dumped a bunch of tires in some reef in the Atlantic hoping to revitalize it. Well, the tires then proceeded to poison all of the wildlife, not only hurting the sealife but killing it off completely. I really really hope they thought this through completely.
About a year ago, I was in a similar position to yours. I was at Penny Arcade expo, and they brought Uwe Boll out to speak about video game movies... in a hall full of people who hated him. I really didn't understand as I thought making video game movies was actually a good thing(I think I'm the only one who loved the Mario Bros movie). But after a bit of rough interviewing, he actually posed a few good points as to why he keeps making movies; people pay out the ass to see them. Can you fathom what it means to make a movie that makes millions?
That being said, right after he showed a trailer for a movie he was making, a very dry sort of humor, making fun of the USA and the war on terror. A good premise for a satire, but just.. TERRIBLY made, none of the jokes were funny in the trailer. My friend and I literally walked out, more important things to do at PAX than watch that.
Ah, so I was the ignorant one, and you are the intelligent one :p I guess I shouldn't jump to conclusions!
The ignorance of Slashdot stuns me sometimes. I'm not saying you're a fool, you probably are extremely intelligent. But just because something is secure now, does not mean it is 100% secure and impenetrable by any means. If the majority that uses Windows now, used Linux instead, you can damn well be sure they'd have nearly as many ways to zombify those Linux boxes you're so proud of. We see this all the time, not too long ago, at that 'hacking' competition, they used a trick in Javascript to compromise the Vista system. Zomg evidence Just because it's Linux, doesn't mean it's foolproof, and I think somewhat shortsighted to assume it would be so much better.
I can verify this story too. I had a Chinese roomate, extremely smart kid, for two years. He had actually heard of the event, but it certainly wasn't taunt in schools in China! When he asked his parents about it, they verified the event, but obviously didn't like to talk about it.
I've played WoW, I've played Counter Strike, I've played Quake 2, I've played Doom, I've played Duck hunt. I've also played a LOT more than just those games, but I will tell you now with empirical experience that you most certainly can become addicted to video games. I used to play for the rush, that killer amazing move you'd do and just be in awe. The 'high' if you would. I'm not kidding, not at all, that was the main reason I played games for a long time, now it's more social (lans) than anything.
But my main point is, I was addicted to that rush feeling from playing a good game, and yes you CAN be addicted to video games.
There goes your business class of investors and salesmen. Enjoy your Brave New World.
Mod parent the heck up. Dune is far too deep and detail oriented to be accurately transported to movie format. There's just so much stuff that needs to be explained. Ex. Kanley.
There's a *very* good reason we have a two party system each with one chosen candidate. To become president of the USA you have to win a majority of the electoral college votes. This means, 50% or more. What happens if three candidates get more than 20% but all less than 50%? It's decided in congress. There is presidence (a few times) in American history when this has been an issue before.
When John Quincy Adams was elected president in the 1800's for his first and only term, there were four candidates running for president under the only existing party, the Democratic-Republican party. Well, each person got less than 50%, but it was lead by Jackson who recieved 43% of the vote, and Adams got 31%. The number 4 guy dropped out, and the number 3 guy, just so happened to be the Speaker of the House. He cuts a deal with Adams, Clay (the number 3 guy) throws his support in Adams' corner and gets Secretary of State in the Cabinet out of the deal. Secretary of State was THE position to have for people wanting to become president in the future.
The reason, after 200 years, we're using a 2 party system is because our constitution demands a majority in the electoral college to win the election. Otherwise you get to deal with this wonderful issue of bargaining in the House for the presidancy. Similar thing happens in the election of 1932, the Whigs got 4 party candidates to run. If they had succeeded in keeping Van Buren from getting the electoral majority, they would have pooled their votes into one candidate to get the presidency for their party.
It really comes down to this, we'd need a constitutional amendment to change our 2 party system, and good luck getting that though congress. You'd need a united congress, which doesn't happen very often.