Of course. Debt is like negative savings. It only makes sense to save money once you pay off your debt, because you probably owe higher interest than you'll earn.
You don't even need that level of faith to do science. All you need to believe is that it is worthwhile to explain and predict our shared observations. For instance, if we do live in a Matrix world, the real world does not exist as we perceive it, but science is still worthwhile because our factually incorrect models would still have explanatory and predictive power. In fact, science often does use factually incorrect models for the sake of convenience. We all know that Newtonian physics aren't really the way things work, but unless you're at the speed of light or on the subatomic level, no one gives a fuck anyway.
You might also note that I used the word "worthwhile" instead of "productive" or "useful". This is because, while science has proven productive and useful, people often do science out of sheer curiosity or some other motivation separate from actually accomplishing anything. As Feynman said, "Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."
That's only two of the three options. There's also the circular possibility--we created the creator of the creator of the creator. This is not problematic if you accept the idea that time arcs back on itself.
"Agnostic" comes from the Greek "a-" for "not" and "gnosis", which means "knowing". Agnostic literally means "not knowing". "Atheist" comes from "a-" and "theist", "theist" coming from "Theos" (God) and "ist" (believer in)--thus "not believer in God". I suggest your beef should be with whoever invented those words in the first place, because they never did mean what you thought they did.
Don't call me "sir", you hypocritical cunt. You have done nothing to help anyone with anything, and have said the kinds of stupid shit that get people beat to a pulp here in NYC, if they're insane enough to try saying it.
So New Yorkers are short-tempered people who leap to violence as their first response to perceived sacrilege? And you're surprised I'm not falling all over myself to feel sorry for you pricks? You've threatened violence before. I think you have enough information on me that you could track me down and physically harm me, if you wanted to. Until you do that, you're no less a coward as I am, sir.
Wikipedia: In April 1993, the Iraqi Intelligence Service allegedly attempted to assassinate former President Bush via car bomb during a visit to Kuwait. However, Kuwaiti security foiled the car bomb plot. On 1993-06-26, the U.S. launched a missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for the alledged attempted attack against Bush.
I think you're trying to claim that because you were in New York at the time of the attack, your personal judgment of the situation should outweigh the actual evidence. Within the past six years, we've had an entire city almost destroyed by hurricane, an entire ocean coastline devastated by tsunami, a nation the size of California impoverished by two foreign invasions, a decade of economic sanctions, and an ongoing civil war, an ongoing genocide, an ongoing intifada, and countless wars. You, sir, do not know the meaning of the word "mayhem". Getting the rest of the day off from work does not compare with what millions of people have gone through, whether because of natural disaster or because of self-righteous pricks like you.
"Habeas corpus was abolished and the US is wiretapping all our phones" is old news, just like "New Orleans was almost destroyed by a hurricane a couple years back". If you don't know about something that was widely publicized, even on Slashdot, the onus is on you to educate yourself.
Was there rioting? Looting? A complete breakdown in public services? Were people evacuated from the city and relocated to neighboring states? Why don't you tell the people of Los Angeles or New Orleans how bad you had it.
The brilliance of the 9/11 attacks was the plane attacks. No one in our civilized world was able to conceive of that mode of attack, due to our own civilities, etc.
Except, of course, for Tom Clancy, anybody who read Tom Clancy's Debt of Honor, numerous CIA analysts who predicted that mode of attack, numerous CIA analysts who reviewed captured al-Qaeda plans for such an attack, and any student of World War II in the Pacific.
Actually, if we implement pollution taxes and require tradeable permits to generate greenhouse gases, the ability to pollute will be a luxury, instead of the mass-market item it is now. If people with money were the only ones who could pollute, the world would be a lot better.
For people who obey the law and common sense, the right lane is generally the place to be, as most exits are accessible only from the right lane
So are most entrances. The second-to-right lane is the place to be if you don't want to kill people in horrible merging accidents, or at the very least want to save yourself the trouble of worrying about them.
Well yeah, if you have to support another human being of course you're gonna be broke. It's not that you can't afford luxuries like high-end electronics, it's that you chose frequent easy sex as the one luxury you could afford.
If I knew the answer to that question, I would ask you to pay me considerable consulting fees before I told you. (If my advice is gonna make you money, I certainly have the right to ask for a chunk of it.) Unfortunately for my bank account, I have no idea. All I can tell you is that resting your hopes on your customers playing games on a game console turned faux-PC is a bit silly--if you were to turn a game console into a faux-PC, it wouldn't be to play games. Depending upon the common customer to make an unintuitive hack in order to make your product work is a failing strategy.
and then also charge the dancers 10% or 15% (forget which) to "cash" the chips. Probably something in the latter half of that transaction is illegal
It's pretty standard for the club to charge dancers a fee on their earnings at the club anyway. It's in the contract--the dancers aren't employees but rather contractors, which is why you pay them and not the club. That's pretty much the only way most clubs even make money, other than drinks (in some states you can't serve drinks in a strip club so scratch that) and cover charges.
Why not just roll these changes into the next round of currency revisions that were already going to happen? There's already two revisions of the $20 within my living memory, and I'm just 21. One revision of every other bill except the $1 and $2. We can just keep the $1 the same, stop printing the $2 (since nobody uses it anyway), and take the next bill that hasn't been redesigned already (the $50? $100?) and work those features into the redesign.
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Of course. Debt is like negative savings. It only makes sense to save money once you pay off your debt, because you probably owe higher interest than you'll earn.
I'll prove it as soon as you prove to me that Hurricane Katrina happened. Until then, you're missing the point.
You don't even need that level of faith to do science. All you need to believe is that it is worthwhile to explain and predict our shared observations. For instance, if we do live in a Matrix world, the real world does not exist as we perceive it, but science is still worthwhile because our factually incorrect models would still have explanatory and predictive power. In fact, science often does use factually incorrect models for the sake of convenience. We all know that Newtonian physics aren't really the way things work, but unless you're at the speed of light or on the subatomic level, no one gives a fuck anyway.
You might also note that I used the word "worthwhile" instead of "productive" or "useful". This is because, while science has proven productive and useful, people often do science out of sheer curiosity or some other motivation separate from actually accomplishing anything. As Feynman said, "Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."
That's only two of the three options. There's also the circular possibility--we created the creator of the creator of the creator. This is not problematic if you accept the idea that time arcs back on itself.
I never said that. It was a digression, you illiterate prick.
"Agnostic" comes from the Greek "a-" for "not" and "gnosis", which means "knowing". Agnostic literally means "not knowing". "Atheist" comes from "a-" and "theist", "theist" coming from "Theos" (God) and "ist" (believer in)--thus "not believer in God". I suggest your beef should be with whoever invented those words in the first place, because they never did mean what you thought they did.
So New Yorkers are short-tempered people who leap to violence as their first response to perceived sacrilege? And you're surprised I'm not falling all over myself to feel sorry for you pricks? You've threatened violence before. I think you have enough information on me that you could track me down and physically harm me, if you wanted to. Until you do that, you're no less a coward as I am, sir.
Wikipedia: In April 1993, the Iraqi Intelligence Service allegedly attempted to assassinate former President Bush via car bomb during a visit to Kuwait. However, Kuwaiti security foiled the car bomb plot. On 1993-06-26, the U.S. launched a missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for the alledged attempted attack against Bush.
I think you're trying to claim that because you were in New York at the time of the attack, your personal judgment of the situation should outweigh the actual evidence. Within the past six years, we've had an entire city almost destroyed by hurricane, an entire ocean coastline devastated by tsunami, a nation the size of California impoverished by two foreign invasions, a decade of economic sanctions, and an ongoing civil war, an ongoing genocide, an ongoing intifada, and countless wars. You, sir, do not know the meaning of the word "mayhem". Getting the rest of the day off from work does not compare with what millions of people have gone through, whether because of natural disaster or because of self-righteous pricks like you.
"Habeas corpus was abolished and the US is wiretapping all our phones" is old news, just like "New Orleans was almost destroyed by a hurricane a couple years back". If you don't know about something that was widely publicized, even on Slashdot, the onus is on you to educate yourself.
"Mayhem that lasted all day."
Was there rioting? Looting? A complete breakdown in public services? Were people evacuated from the city and relocated to neighboring states? Why don't you tell the people of Los Angeles or New Orleans how bad you had it.
Except, of course, for Tom Clancy, anybody who read Tom Clancy's Debt of Honor, numerous CIA analysts who predicted that mode of attack, numerous CIA analysts who reviewed captured al-Qaeda plans for such an attack, and any student of World War II in the Pacific.
Actually, if we implement pollution taxes and require tradeable permits to generate greenhouse gases, the ability to pollute will be a luxury, instead of the mass-market item it is now. If people with money were the only ones who could pollute, the world would be a lot better.
Actually, this was used as a psychological warfare tactic against Iraq in both wars.
And that gets you stuck behind a semi with no visibility and driving 10 below the limit for passenger vehicles.
So are most entrances. The second-to-right lane is the place to be if you don't want to kill people in horrible merging accidents, or at the very least want to save yourself the trouble of worrying about them.
I think spending money on cable was your first mistake.
Well yeah, if you have to support another human being of course you're gonna be broke. It's not that you can't afford luxuries like high-end electronics, it's that you chose frequent easy sex as the one luxury you could afford.
If I knew the answer to that question, I would ask you to pay me considerable consulting fees before I told you. (If my advice is gonna make you money, I certainly have the right to ask for a chunk of it.) Unfortunately for my bank account, I have no idea. All I can tell you is that resting your hopes on your customers playing games on a game console turned faux-PC is a bit silly--if you were to turn a game console into a faux-PC, it wouldn't be to play games. Depending upon the common customer to make an unintuitive hack in order to make your product work is a failing strategy.
Maybe you need to realize that, as awesome as your game seems to be, it's not viable in the market at all for exactly that reason.
They're even more likely to show up on an actual PC. Boom! Squeezed out of the market.
Ah yes, "Hold Your Fire", the local minimum between the local maxima of "Grace Under Pressure" and "Presto". "Power Windows" is an inflection point.
"Hold Your Fire" is also the limit of Rush as Alex Lifeson approaches underutilized.
It's pretty standard for the club to charge dancers a fee on their earnings at the club anyway. It's in the contract--the dancers aren't employees but rather contractors, which is why you pay them and not the club. That's pretty much the only way most clubs even make money, other than drinks (in some states you can't serve drinks in a strip club so scratch that) and cover charges.
Why not just roll these changes into the next round of currency revisions that were already going to happen? There's already two revisions of the $20 within my living memory, and I'm just 21. One revision of every other bill except the $1 and $2. We can just keep the $1 the same, stop printing the $2 (since nobody uses it anyway), and take the next bill that hasn't been redesigned already (the $50? $100?) and work those features into the redesign.
That doesn't compel businesses to accept cash. All that means is that any debt adjudicated or compelled by a US court must be accepted in US currency.