If I were homeless and someone offered me a choice of working at walmart or riding a bike all day, I'd be on that bike 8hrs a day no problem. As far as prisoners go, I hardly see this a cruel and unsusual punishment (as long as you let them off the bike when they get saddle sores!).
Also giving homeless and prisoners a solid fitness base would help to develop the confidence that many of them lack.
If the "people that agreed with him" did so just on the basis of his "credentials," then maybe they should question the value people place on education - particularly the Liberal Arts (even moreso for fuzzy crap like religious studies). It's not like he was claiming to be a doctor, biologist or engineer. Now, if the "people that agreed with him" did so on the basis of his convincing arguments, then maybe the guy was smart and learned enough to make convincing arguements. In this case, maybe this proves that "credentials" don't mean as much as the weight that society tends to place on them.
Maybe people tend to attribute value to "credentials" if they have some too? Maybe it is a way to validate their own schooling?
I most certainly didn't say that space exploration was "just for kicks" - I recognize that there are ancillary benefits to society, but if you look at the depth of the problems we have on our hands, spending tax dollars on space doesn't compare to the value that money can have when applied directly to our problems.
Well, that is a good point, but that has more to do with our system, than the base concept of taxation. Everyone likes to bitch about them, but at the core level, the taxes I pay = my contribution to our society. Just because it doesn't work that way in our current system, doesn't mean that taxes are worthless.
Yeah, I bet that there will be a lot of gold flowing in the early days of the exp and we'll see much cheaper gold prices. I farmed my 1st epic mount on my main, but there is no way in hell I'll do that again - I'd rather be pvping or raiding thanks...
I disagree. In WoW, buying gold is a way to focus on the fun stuff. Instead of spending hours farming the mats for a flask of 2hrs raid uberness so you can progress in a raid, you buy the gold and get the flask wothout spending a huge amount of time. Time to fun ratio is higher then. Some people nejoy collecting gold, some don't. Buying gold lets you focus where you want to. And it is not like you can buy teh sword or uberness with your gold. Gear that can be bought is generally sub par.
Sure, there are social benfits to space exloration, but maybe people just want thier tax dollars to go towards fixing the problems we have here on earth now. Leave space for private companies for now.
"I find it equally reprehensible (maybe hypocritical is a better word) that anyone would be opposed to the death penalty, vehemently anti-war AND pro-abortion. What the hell does that mean? You're against all forms of violence so long as it's not personally inconvenient? Oh yeah, it's "my body" so I can do whatever I want. Thanks mom!"
I am anti-war because it only breeds more violence. I am anti death penalty because I don't trust our system to chose who should die. I am pro abortion beacuse the world is full of crappy parents - if someone knows that they would be a crappy parent then let them do the responsible thing and abort.
Note that none of these reasons have anything to do with some BS sancity of life crap, but rather logic and pragmatism - which are sorely lacking in our culture these days due to you whacky christians.
I never ever said I was upset by this video game and I never "suggested the death of BAZIOLLIONS of people" "to the lions" was a blatantly obvious metaphor for my suggested anti-christian backlash.
I am an agnostic and I live in a "christian" nation. "christian" means you have "faith" in god. "faith" means you believe in something that is unprovable to me/you and that when you die, you go to the happy place and I don't. In my eyes, this makes you insane and arrogant - which is the best description of American foreign policy under a "christian" leader that got elected because he calls himself christian and is willing to desegregate church and state.
p.s. I'l take the flamebait for my OP, but hey it was early and I was cranky:P Besides, it brought up the topic. "to the lions" FTW!
I couldn't agree more. It is time for some anti-christian (and all people who use belief to puss thier infriority into superiority) backlash. I think it is time to hear "to the lions" ringing in the ears of those arrogant enough to have faith in anything.
Look, I am all for the masses believing in the prince of peace and turn the other cheek, but unfortunately, christians are the reason america has taken a turn for the violent.
If you believe in an afterlife - you scare the fuck out of me. You don't have the same commitment to THIS life that I do.
I can't stress this enough. I bought hundreds of dollars worth of music from these sites. Why? Because I am NOT going to spend a fucking dollar per song. Period. I don't care how much fucking money I make (barely 6figs right now). At the end of the day, a dollar is TOO MUCH FUCKING MONEY for a single song. I'll pay the prices that these russian sites charged, but that's it. That is my pricepoint. Period.
$3.50 for a CD's worth of songs seems like a good bit of money to the artists, but not the recording industry. Funny thing is, they are not needed anymore. Period. The only reason they are still around is because they are spending money to stay alive. Instead of helping to prop them up, the govt should be setting up an non-profit institue for musicians.
It seems to me that geeks would rather play on a PC, where you can hack the game if you don't like it. What is the allure of consoles? I don't get it. I bought an Xbox, but I never play games on the thing - I'd rather be on a PC.
I play a lvl 60 rogue in a guild that has BWL on farm (i.e. 1 step short of uber). When I first got into WOW, I burned a lot of time on it, but now I play two nights a week from 6-10pm - that's 8 hours a week - leaving plenty of time for other hobbies and interests. The game does not force you to play 40hrs a week.
WTF? This guy, like 5 other responders failed to have the reading comprehension skills to realize that my postulation was not that having less population would solve the problems, but merely make impossible situations solvable. Who gives a fuck that industrial revolution era cities were more polluted? We know better now and have better technology. At the end of the day, having 1/10th the population AND having the level of tech we now have (which was a blatantly obvious assumption in my point) would make our problems solvable.
Obviously, but my point is that "history" is a flawed basis for drawing a conclusion re: the warlike nature of man as it tends to be written by the groups that managed to beat down the rest...
But I don't want to reduce my consumption! If there were 1/10th the poulation it wouldn't be a problem. Again, the more people there are, the less feedom an individual has.
Well, beyond a genetically engineered virus that would kill people of sub-standard intelligence, we could at least try to work towards it as a goal. Here are is a good 1st step: TAX people for breeding rather than giving them tax breaks!
1. Religious difference. 2. Resource difference (from your land is more fertile, has more shiny rocks, is upwind, you name it) 3. Global Warming (as if its population based, we would just blame it on something else, lets see, the previous conditions work)"
Again, I didn't say that our problems could be solved by simply reducing the population, merely that they would be solvable.
Solutions (admittedly simplistic) 1. with 1/10th the population, there would be plenty of land for you wacky religious people to live far away from me:p 2. create an even distribution of resources across the whole freaking world - with 1/10th the population, it would be a cheap solution. 3. move population away from the coasts.
I didn't say that merely having 1/10th of the population would solve all of our problems, merely that they would be solvable.
Also - I disagree with the notion that humans are inherantly warlike. Sure, you could look back over all of our history and draw that conclusion, but history is written by the winners - and winning (used to) = superior force which drove warlike behavior. From a Darwin perspective, we evolved warlike tendancies, but the reality is that it has become a de-evolutionary trait and it is just a trait, not innate.
heh. I could argue that, with less people, the focus on the education of the individual would be greater, thus there could be a better chance of developing the intelligence to solve these problems...
Every single problem we face has, at its core, the fact that there are too many people as a confounding factor. If the world had 1/10th the population, our problems could be easily solved or they wouldn't exist in the 1st place. Pollution, war for land, global warming, etc. Name me a problem and I can easily argue that it would be solvable (or not a problem at all) with 1/10th the population.
The harsh reality is that the more people there are, the less valuable an individual life is and the less freedom that individual will have.
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If I were homeless and someone offered me a choice of working at walmart or riding a bike all day, I'd be on that bike 8hrs a day no problem. As far as prisoners go, I hardly see this a cruel and unsusual punishment (as long as you let them off the bike when they get saddle sores!). Also giving homeless and prisoners a solid fitness base would help to develop the confidence that many of them lack.
If the "people that agreed with him" did so just on the basis of his "credentials," then maybe they should question the value people place on education - particularly the Liberal Arts (even moreso for fuzzy crap like religious studies). It's not like he was claiming to be a doctor, biologist or engineer. Now, if the "people that agreed with him" did so on the basis of his convincing arguments, then maybe the guy was smart and learned enough to make convincing arguements. In this case, maybe this proves that "credentials" don't mean as much as the weight that society tends to place on them. Maybe people tend to attribute value to "credentials" if they have some too? Maybe it is a way to validate their own schooling?
I most certainly didn't say that space exploration was "just for kicks" - I recognize that there are ancillary benefits to society, but if you look at the depth of the problems we have on our hands, spending tax dollars on space doesn't compare to the value that money can have when applied directly to our problems.
Well, that is a good point, but that has more to do with our system, than the base concept of taxation. Everyone likes to bitch about them, but at the core level, the taxes I pay = my contribution to our society. Just because it doesn't work that way in our current system, doesn't mean that taxes are worthless.
Yeah, I bet that there will be a lot of gold flowing in the early days of the exp and we'll see much cheaper gold prices. I farmed my 1st epic mount on my main, but there is no way in hell I'll do that again - I'd rather be pvping or raiding thanks...
I disagree. In WoW, buying gold is a way to focus on the fun stuff. Instead of spending hours farming the mats for a flask of 2hrs raid uberness so you can progress in a raid, you buy the gold and get the flask wothout spending a huge amount of time. Time to fun ratio is higher then. Some people nejoy collecting gold, some don't. Buying gold lets you focus where you want to. And it is not like you can buy teh sword or uberness with your gold. Gear that can be bought is generally sub par.
Sure, there are social benfits to space exloration, but maybe people just want thier tax dollars to go towards fixing the problems we have here on earth now. Leave space for private companies for now.
"I find it equally reprehensible (maybe hypocritical is a better word) that anyone would be opposed to the death penalty, vehemently anti-war AND pro-abortion. What the hell does that mean? You're against all forms of violence so long as it's not personally inconvenient? Oh yeah, it's "my body" so I can do whatever I want. Thanks mom!" I am anti-war because it only breeds more violence. I am anti death penalty because I don't trust our system to chose who should die. I am pro abortion beacuse the world is full of crappy parents - if someone knows that they would be a crappy parent then let them do the responsible thing and abort. Note that none of these reasons have anything to do with some BS sancity of life crap, but rather logic and pragmatism - which are sorely lacking in our culture these days due to you whacky christians.
I never ever said I was upset by this video game and I never "suggested the death of BAZIOLLIONS of people" "to the lions" was a blatantly obvious metaphor for my suggested anti-christian backlash.
:P
I am an agnostic and I live in a "christian" nation. "christian" means you have "faith" in god. "faith" means you believe in something that is unprovable to me/you and that when you die, you go to the happy place and I don't. In my eyes, this makes you insane and arrogant - which is the best description of American foreign policy under a "christian" leader that got elected because he calls himself christian and is willing to desegregate church and state.
p.s. I'l take the flamebait for my OP, but hey it was early and I was cranky
Besides, it brought up the topic. "to the lions" FTW!
I couldn't agree more. It is time for some anti-christian (and all people who use belief to puss thier infriority into superiority) backlash. I think it is time to hear "to the lions" ringing in the ears of those arrogant enough to have faith in anything. Look, I am all for the masses believing in the prince of peace and turn the other cheek, but unfortunately, christians are the reason america has taken a turn for the violent. If you believe in an afterlife - you scare the fuck out of me. You don't have the same commitment to THIS life that I do.
I can't stress this enough. I bought hundreds of dollars worth of music from these sites. Why? Because I am NOT going to spend a fucking dollar per song. Period. I don't care how much fucking money I make (barely 6figs right now). At the end of the day, a dollar is TOO MUCH FUCKING MONEY for a single song. I'll pay the prices that these russian sites charged, but that's it. That is my pricepoint. Period.
$3.50 for a CD's worth of songs seems like a good bit of money to the artists, but not the recording industry. Funny thing is, they are not needed anymore. Period. The only reason they are still around is because they are spending money to stay alive. Instead of helping to prop them up, the govt should be setting up an non-profit institue for musicians.
It seems to me that geeks would rather play on a PC, where you can hack the game if you don't like it. What is the allure of consoles? I don't get it. I bought an Xbox, but I never play games on the thing - I'd rather be on a PC.
This is a great summary that my fantasy sword loving ass knew nothing about...
I play a lvl 60 rogue in a guild that has BWL on farm (i.e. 1 step short of uber). When I first got into WOW, I burned a lot of time on it, but now I play two nights a week from 6-10pm - that's 8 hours a week - leaving plenty of time for other hobbies and interests. The game does not force you to play 40hrs a week.
WTF? This guy, like 5 other responders failed to have the reading comprehension skills to realize that my postulation was not that having less population would solve the problems, but merely make impossible situations solvable. Who gives a fuck that industrial revolution era cities were more polluted? We know better now and have better technology. At the end of the day, having 1/10th the population AND having the level of tech we now have (which was a blatantly obvious assumption in my point) would make our problems solvable.
Gee - this is slashdot - I'd figure that people would be at least somewhat aware of technological advances.
Blows me the fuck away that so many people misunderstood my assertion and got modded up - while I got modded troll.
Obviously, but my point is that "history" is a flawed basis for drawing a conclusion re: the warlike nature of man as it tends to be written by the groups that managed to beat down the rest...
But I don't want to reduce my consumption! If there were 1/10th the poulation it wouldn't be a problem. Again, the more people there are, the less feedom an individual has.
Well, beyond a genetically engineered virus that would kill people of sub-standard intelligence, we could at least try to work towards it as a goal. Here are is a good 1st step: TAX people for breeding rather than giving them tax breaks!
I am an only child, thus my birth was technically population reduction.
"solve these just by reducing the population.
:p
1. Religious difference.
2. Resource difference (from your land is more fertile, has more shiny rocks, is upwind, you name it)
3. Global Warming (as if its population based, we would just blame it on something else, lets see, the previous conditions work)"
Again, I didn't say that our problems could be solved by simply reducing the population, merely that they would be solvable.
Solutions (admittedly simplistic)
1. with 1/10th the population, there would be plenty of land for you wacky religious people to live far away from me
2. create an even distribution of resources across the whole freaking world - with 1/10th the population, it would be a cheap solution.
3. move population away from the coasts.
I didn't say that merely having 1/10th of the population would solve all of our problems, merely that they would be solvable.
reading comprehension FTW!
I didn't say that merely having 1/10th of the population would solve all of our problems, merely that they would be solvable.
Also - I disagree with the notion that humans are inherantly warlike. Sure, you could look back over all of our history and draw that conclusion, but history is written by the winners - and winning (used to) = superior force which drove warlike behavior. From a Darwin perspective, we evolved warlike tendancies, but the reality is that it has become a de-evolutionary trait and it is just a trait, not innate.
heh.
I could argue that, with less people, the focus on the education of the individual would be greater, thus there could be a better chance of developing the intelligence to solve these problems...
Every single problem we face has, at its core, the fact that there are too many people as a confounding factor. If the world had 1/10th the population, our problems could be easily solved or they wouldn't exist in the 1st place. Pollution, war for land, global warming, etc. Name me a problem and I can easily argue that it would be solvable (or not a problem at all) with 1/10th the population. The harsh reality is that the more people there are, the less valuable an individual life is and the less freedom that individual will have.