I appreciate your concern, but I'm actually a pretty happy person. As for us being able to affect the planet, I'd mention global climate change, but it's clear from your posting history that there's nothing I can say that will convince you. Regardless, take a trip to your local strip mine, or look at how polluted the Ganges river is and tell me we're not having any negative effect on the planet. Or forget the planet, what about our fellow man and generations to come?
Actually there's no such thing as a military Hummer, you're thinking of the HMMWV, or Humvee, which uses a diesel engine, which is an entirely different animal.
Seriously, the population is rising in third-world countries where they are unable and unwilling to do anything about it; meanwhile, the peoples with the knowledge and motivation to take action are decreasing in numbers (and doing little more than proselytizing to the wrong crowd).
There's a reason for this. Education. Sending food to third world countries is all well and good, and a wonderful humanitarian gesture, but the cold hard fact is it means more people survive and have the opportunity to have more children, exacerbating the problem. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying for a second that we should stop sending food, but there's something even better we can offer along side it: education. More educated people statistically have fewer children. It all goes back to the old give a man a fish vs. teach a man to fish.
It may well be that he already is. I feel the same way and I'm planning to not have children for specifically this reason. Honestly I'd be overjoyed if we could get everyone to agree and just let ourselves go extinct.
I may not agree with his stance on every single issue, but I have to say, I don't think I've ever felt genuinely excited about the prospect of any particular candidate becoming president before this election. Usually I'm just hoping for the guy I mind the least to get in.
A good solution now is better than a perfect solution two years from now. I'd rather have one of these devices that breaks down occasionally than go without until it's perfected.
To this day I still maintain that with the exception of the combat system, Galaxies is the best MMO released so far. And truth be told, the combat was still fun in the first couple weeks, back when everyone had crap gear and no advanced professions.
Based on your two on-topic posts in this thread, you seem to value nothing about an athlete except for how rigorous their training regimen is. By this logic a body builder is an amazing athlete, and some midwestern kid who got strong working on the family farm and just happens to be amazing as a high-school quarterback hardly rates.
A sport requires both physical and mental skill, for example look at fencing. A fencer has to train hard, and a professional fencer is, pound for pound, stronger than a linebacker. But without having learned proper form all that strength is useless.
He was likely exaggerating the size of the cartridge, which is actually somewhere in the vicinity of 6" long. Also worth noting that while recruits are often told stories about how you're not technically allowed to use.50s against infantry so you have to aim for the uniform, etc., the geneva convention doesn't actually prohibit it.
No, no grizzlies around here, that's why it's important to mention that playing dead is NOT the thing to do 'round these parts. Black bears are scavengers, so acting dead is just playing right into their hand. In fact, they've been behind most of the play dead propaganda in the hopes of easier meals...
Good news! We took your idea into consideration and swapped places for you. Now we have ocean coastline here in NH and VT is stuck inland. Go ahead and check your maps, we've changed them all retroactively with our prayers to the great squirrel and moose gods. But then again, myself and pretty much every other non-libertarian I've talked to would rather not have our state overrun, thank you very much. Should you decide to move in anyway, remember that playing dead is only for grizzlies; the black bears around here you have to actively fight off should you be attacked, and I hope you like black flies.
(P.S. The preceding post, dripping with sarcasm as it was, is what we yankees consider friendly humor. If you found yourself offended, best keep away.)
I wondered if they remembered to take into account people who don't drink because of pre-existing health conditions that result in shorter life spans. That's a variable they tend to forget in these studies...
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I appreciate your concern, but I'm actually a pretty happy person. As for us being able to affect the planet, I'd mention global climate change, but it's clear from your posting history that there's nothing I can say that will convince you. Regardless, take a trip to your local strip mine, or look at how polluted the Ganges river is and tell me we're not having any negative effect on the planet. Or forget the planet, what about our fellow man and generations to come?
Actually there's no such thing as a military Hummer, you're thinking of the HMMWV, or Humvee, which uses a diesel engine, which is an entirely different animal.
There's a reason for this. Education. Sending food to third world countries is all well and good, and a wonderful humanitarian gesture, but the cold hard fact is it means more people survive and have the opportunity to have more children, exacerbating the problem. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying for a second that we should stop sending food, but there's something even better we can offer along side it: education. More educated people statistically have fewer children. It all goes back to the old give a man a fish vs. teach a man to fish.
It may well be that he already is. I feel the same way and I'm planning to not have children for specifically this reason. Honestly I'd be overjoyed if we could get everyone to agree and just let ourselves go extinct.
We can only hope they also take out the people who make the signs saying "10 items or less" instead of "10 items or fewer"
I must have missed something, since when is SETI@home infamous?
It's possible. Of course, given what the rest of the world thinks of us these days, a little likeability my be just what we need.
I may not agree with his stance on every single issue, but I have to say, I don't think I've ever felt genuinely excited about the prospect of any particular candidate becoming president before this election. Usually I'm just hoping for the guy I mind the least to get in.
As someone who grew up in a 244 year old farm house I have to say it's a real tragedy when a piece of history is lost like that.
A good solution now is better than a perfect solution two years from now. I'd rather have one of these devices that breaks down occasionally than go without until it's perfected.
To this day I still maintain that with the exception of the combat system, Galaxies is the best MMO released so far. And truth be told, the combat was still fun in the first couple weeks, back when everyone had crap gear and no advanced professions.
Based on your two on-topic posts in this thread, you seem to value nothing about an athlete except for how rigorous their training regimen is. By this logic a body builder is an amazing athlete, and some midwestern kid who got strong working on the family farm and just happens to be amazing as a high-school quarterback hardly rates. A sport requires both physical and mental skill, for example look at fencing. A fencer has to train hard, and a professional fencer is, pound for pound, stronger than a linebacker. But without having learned proper form all that strength is useless.
What the fuck does that mean!?
He was likely exaggerating the size of the cartridge, which is actually somewhere in the vicinity of 6" long. Also worth noting that while recruits are often told stories about how you're not technically allowed to use .50s against infantry so you have to aim for the uniform, etc., the geneva convention doesn't actually prohibit it.
Indeed, in fact I understand Alexander lost more of his men from over-drinking water after crossing a desert than he ever did in a battle.
I wish I could be alive 1,000 years from now so I could watch a time lapse movie of it happening...
No, no grizzlies around here, that's why it's important to mention that playing dead is NOT the thing to do 'round these parts. Black bears are scavengers, so acting dead is just playing right into their hand. In fact, they've been behind most of the play dead propaganda in the hopes of easier meals...
Good news! We took your idea into consideration and swapped places for you. Now we have ocean coastline here in NH and VT is stuck inland. Go ahead and check your maps, we've changed them all retroactively with our prayers to the great squirrel and moose gods. But then again, myself and pretty much every other non-libertarian I've talked to would rather not have our state overrun, thank you very much. Should you decide to move in anyway, remember that playing dead is only for grizzlies; the black bears around here you have to actively fight off should you be attacked, and I hope you like black flies.
(P.S. The preceding post, dripping with sarcasm as it was, is what we yankees consider friendly humor. If you found yourself offended, best keep away.)
So THAT's what happened to me. Suddenly everything makes sense, and it's all Smokey's fault.
It's the only way to be sure...
52,000 pine trees worth of energy
What's that in burning libraries of congress?
And sure enough, a little digging shows a significant history of exactly this error in past studies.0 06/03/30/MNGMTI0B3U1.DTL
Here's and example from March:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2
I wondered if they remembered to take into account people who don't drink because of pre-existing health conditions that result in shorter life spans. That's a variable they tend to forget in these studies...
Twilight War was looking very promising too, though there hasn't been too much news since it got sub-licensed out...
You're just trying to embiggen your vocabulary to sound smart...