At which point the proper reply is, if I have you committed until you calm down for your own good, then doesn't that protect me from you killing me and prevent you from ruining your life and ending up in prison for life?
Well, not in dollars anyway. To hold down inflation, the FED artificially limits the amount of currency available.
Zimbabwe did an experiment a while back with its currency to see if we were yet at a stage where currency can be infinite- I'd suggest you look up the results of that experiment.
"If you can hop aboard a plane and in doing so prevent some poor family from burning one more piece of firewood and sending an extra lb of toxic material into the atmosphere then by all means it's worth it"
That makes no sense. Hopping aboard a plane spends several tons of carbon.
I don't hate science. I love science. I hate government schills pretending to do science when in reality they're only writing grants to get taxpayer money and doing no real science at all.
I've done crowdfunded projects a few times now. It works. Crowdfunded science also works.
But of course, if the only way you think you can survive is with communism, then go right ahead. I've learned enough from my experiments hacking utopias to no longer believe that a utopia can exist (or that an academic institution can discover truth or do science).
Given the state of global warming, wouldn't we all be better off if this "conference" was held virtually in cyberspace instead of wasting fossil fuels for everybody to travel?
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At which point the proper reply is, if I have you committed until you calm down for your own good, then doesn't that protect me from you killing me and prevent you from ruining your life and ending up in prison for life?
Well, not in dollars anyway. To hold down inflation, the FED artificially limits the amount of currency available.
Zimbabwe did an experiment a while back with its currency to see if we were yet at a stage where currency can be infinite- I'd suggest you look up the results of that experiment.
Is this the same peer review that couldn't detect outright fraud in the social sciences?
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2018/10/06/another-set-of-fake-papers-takes-aim-at-social-sciences-nether-regions
Or maybe you also believe canine rape exists.
And yet, there's only $2 trillion in cash in circulation.
Socializing should be done on your own dime.
None of those are reason to leave behind a jealous ex. They are good reasons to get your spouse psychiatric help though.
Or even cheaper yet, just record their checkins from facebook.
Not leaving behind jealous ex-partners by cheating on them would be a good start.
Any scientist accepting government funding, has been corrupted by government and their conclusions should be suspect.
"It's not like the scientists get to pocket any of the money themselves. "
Because they work entirely voluntarily and eat air?
Are you under the impression that the Earth is infinite?
Who ever said the wall would be unguarded? Those gun ports between slats are there for a reason.
You've never filled out a Schedule A, have you?
Because, of course, progressives are inherently dishonest.
Any endowment you create will be buffeted by every political tantrum.
"If you can hop aboard a plane and in doing so prevent some poor family from burning one more piece of firewood and sending an extra lb of toxic material into the atmosphere then by all means it's worth it"
That makes no sense. Hopping aboard a plane spends several tons of carbon.
I expect anything the government touches to become corrupt, especially science.
No, I'm suggesting the only sort of science that should be done, is that which is interesting enough to crowdfund.
With video communications, you are working face to face, so that is not a reasonable objection.
Given what the Bavarian and Argentinian branches of the Roman Catholic Church have been up to, I'm also against the Church taking public taxes.
Who needs HRC's e-mails when you have "scientists" traveling 3000 miles by carbon spewing jet planes?
And the answer is to decentralize the funding sources.
I don't hate science. I love science. I hate government schills pretending to do science when in reality they're only writing grants to get taxpayer money and doing no real science at all.
I've done crowdfunded projects a few times now. It works. Crowdfunded science also works.
But of course, if the only way you think you can survive is with communism, then go right ahead. I've learned enough from my experiments hacking utopias to no longer believe that a utopia can exist (or that an academic institution can discover truth or do science).
Given the state of global warming, wouldn't we all be better off if this "conference" was held virtually in cyberspace instead of wasting fossil fuels for everybody to travel?