History and current events disprove that claim handily, unless you're talking about some other humanity. We are dumber than animals. We breed LESS during abundance (modern US, Europe) and more in times of hardship (the US and Europe before key scientific advances). Africa and all the other slum nations are breeding at an alarming rate. Even within the US we see this on the smaller scale. Educated, affluent people have few children if any. They're too busy enjoying life. Our poor otoH, crank out the babies with great frequency.
The more of your post i read the more i think you're trolling or going for funny mod points.
Most people don't save money at all. If they put some extra cash each month in a savings account it's better than nothing but it still fizzles away at 6% or so per year. If they can invest it they will be more prepared for retirement (that's a good thing).
But like i said, most don't save. If they spend less on cooling they are likely to spend it on something else. Clothes, upgrading their cable or a Wii game or two. The money saved is unlikely to lie fallow.
i agree with the general idea that this isn't an economic growth thing in and of itself.
Jealousy is wanting to keep something to yourself, like a lover, or your money. Envy is wanting what someone else has, like wishing you had Jessie's girl.
It's far simpler and less cynical (less commie/pinko) than that. The issues at work are:
- People are different, we expect/want people to be the same. - Many people do have conditions of one sort or another, in the past we called people lazy, undisciplined, mean/evil, bilious, possessed by demons. Now we know that have neurological conditions that makes it hard for them to get along with everyone else. - We evolved to function in a certain environment. We don't live in that environment... we've changed it, but we haven't changed. So we have instincts that once saved our ancestors lives (eating whatever, whenever) are now killing us (obesity and all its attendant issues).
i'm having a Poe's Law moment here, but i'll bite.
My take is that Windows folks aren't in it for Windows. They regard their computer as a tool and a toy, not a statement about how special they are or any desire to belong. That's the domain of the persecuted minority. If you meet a Windows person railing about Apple products it's usually the result of years of hearing Mac Fanbois sneering at them. It gets old after a few years, so yeah, i like to let the macfags have a taste of their own medicine from time to time. i didn't care about Apple one way or the other until i started meeting fanbois who insisted they were oh so superior because of their choice of hardware. They insulted ME for not wanting to join their shared misery of overpaying for under powered gear.
Then they'll talk about viruses, not knowing that when their OS becomes the tall poppy the viruses will come. Interacting with others comes with the risk of catching cooties. Sure, you never get a cold because no one visits you. i know how to run antivirus software so i get to go to the fun parties.
i want a tool and a toy, not a club membership or fashion statement. i didn't crave "fitting in" when i was a kid, i don't crave it now. Being trendy is "fitting in" by the way, it's another flavor of conformity. Apple products are trendy (trendy is the opposite of cool). These are the kids who all dressed the same, listened to the same bands and bleated about how individual they were.
If someone is a Mac user because of the work they do and are realistic about it, that's cool with me. By realistic i mean, they should acknowledge that they could do the same work (and more) on a Windows box and that it would cost less.
i don't care about Bill Gates the way the fanbois seem to care about Jobs. i do admire Gates' charity work. If Bill and Steve died on the same day the Windows folk might go "oh". The iQueefs would be crying and tearing their shirts in anguish.
There are OSX users who don't buy into the cult of Jobs and don't wait in line for days to get the latest iProduct, ***but we don't hear from them***. It's the fanbois who are doing all the shouting. They're the fundies of OSes.
Here's my experience with Linux. "Hey i just got this new laptop, let's install Ubuntu with this Wubi thing. Look, i'm running linux. Wow, this looks like crap because there's no driver for the video card. And there's NOTHING for me to run on this. Back to windows." Linux is neither chicken nor egg just yet for me. i won't use it because there's no reason, and developers won't make things for it because i won't use it. i'd LOVE to see Linux win the OS wars. But only if they ditch all the forks, and just have LINUX, and when there's stuff i can do with it.
The vast majority of Windows users don't know linux EXISTS and they don't care about OS wars. They want a tool and a toy for a good price. So they buy a cheap Dell and that's all they'll ever need.
The expensive thing isn't the military, it's the interest on the debt. That money buys NOTHING. Money spent on hardware has some use and resale value. What's the resale on money spent on interest? All the debt on the budget is theater for the voters. The right panders to the voters by promising lower taxes by removing programs that help brown or poor people. The left panders by saying they'll cut military to benefit brown and poor people. For some reason we fall for it every two years.
The Monetary Reform Act would wipe out the debt and bring inflation to a crawl instead of the 6% or so we see today. We have to fix what our money IS before we can fix the budget in a meaningful way.
Never saw up a mother board. Instead, saw down, over or under!
Was there an EMP that caused everyone with a sub 100 IQ decide that EVERY verb MUST have a preposition? Or was it a loss of funding to schools that caused them to stop teaching English?
There is a difference between arresting someone before they commit a crime and IMPRISONING someone before they commit a crime. Suicide is a crime in most places, an arrest before the crime is committed seems appropriate. It would ARREST the commission of the crime. If someone is building a pipe bomb to kill people, i want that fucker arrested BEFORE he kills. If member of a company are planning to embezzle from their customers, i have no problem with arresting them.
Whether these people should go to jail is another matter. Once arrested we can find out what the real story was, find out if they need counseling or help or imprisonment. But waiting until your mother has already been beaten to death when you knew it was going to happen is amoral at best. In my book it's somewhere between abetting and criminal indifference.
My only objection to the precrime system in the Minority Report movie was the treatment of the precogs. Arresting would be murderers would (and in the movie, did) deter premeditated murder. Only crimes of passion remained. That's frigging awesome.
Sure, there are risks everywhere and they are a part of life. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't avoid them, be aware of them, prepare for them and so on. You present a false dichotomy of accepting whatever risks are present OR live nowhere.
There's a reasonable middle ground of say: not living on a fault line, not living in a frequent flood plain or if you live in tornado alley, to take steps to prepare for and mitigate the damage.
People being raped and murdered is also part of life. That doesn't make them suck any less, nor does it mean we should just accept them.
Anyone else find it troublesome that Bezos is putting $42M into THIS? Or more troublesome still, that Bezos HAS $42M. Or that he has $42M to THROW at anything?
At 4% that money could generate $1,680,000 per year for scholarships, or school renovations, health education or or or or or.
Aside from the bit about communism his sig is spot on.
The whole taxation/representation line is non-sequitur to the point of the sig.
The part about taxing "these people" doesn't parse in English. If you're talking about illegals, they generally don't pay taxes. Which is part of why they are here and why we want them gone (at least some of us). They don't pay into the system so they keep more of what they earn. The people who hire them (who are worse, in my mind, than the illegals) don't pay taxes either and so, get cheap labor. So it's a double whammy.
Immigrants, legal or not, don't get representation any more than tourists. If i'm in Paris on election day, i don't get to vote because... i'm not French, even though i am paying sales tax.
That's perfectly fair. That's the deal. If i want to vote in French elections i should become French. Moreover, i should abide by their LAWS.
Did the UK ever have slavery (in the sense that the US did)?
Just because country A disposed of slavery without a war doesn't mean that the US could have. The south was determined to keep their cheap labor. Determined enough to kill for it. And yes, it took a war to end it.
As for colonies, that may be in part due to the revolution. The empire might have changed its dealing with colonies. And over time, the character of the empire changed. It wasn't the same king dealing with India as the US. Different situations are different.
The Nazi rise was a consequence of a few evil bastards taking advantage of a situation, followed by people who believed them and gave them power. Sure, the end of WW I should have been handled differently, but the blame for WW II lies squarely with the Axis powers. And it did indeed take a war to stop them.
Evil men stop only when forced or bribed to stop. To see this more clearly we can look to WW II again. Weak men sold Poland to Germany in the hopes that they would be eaten last. The Nazis saw this weakness for what it was and kept going. A moment's strength after the annexation of the Sudetenland could have saved tens of millions of lives.
The ending of WW I does not excuse what the Nazis did anymore than a woman wearing a revealing outfit excuses rape. The blame lies squarely on the perpetrator, not the victim.
Your last sentence is the only one that makes sense. But in all but a few cases, it's the evil men that start the war and the good men have to stop it.
"So if things really need to be done different, well let's hear it then. However all I see here is bitching that amounts to "Girls don't like online FPSes." To that I say:
1) So what? There are plenty of other kinds of games. We can have games for all kinds of people, not every game need to be targeted to every person (as such a thing would fail)."
Ah, but we MUST have proportional representation in all things and all categories. If blacks are underrepresented in CompSci degrees then CompSci programs are racist. If blacks aren't interested in CompSci they must be forced into it.
If women aren't playing FPSes, it must be due to the misogynistic maleocracy pushing them away. FPSes must be required to allow players to wear skirts, make up and have spaces to decorate while talking about their feelings. Clearly men don't include these things in shooters to exclude women.
It's hard enough to deliver a beam with enough power to do something once, doing it twice in one shot would be very tough. It would be easier to strap a laser on a plane. Easier still to send a missile or bomb to the target.
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He's a snob. He thinks we are impressed by what he dislikes.
Unless these customers are hoisting the jolly roger before engaging in ship to ship armed robbery, they are NOT pirates.
Unless there was a ship carrying four million documents and he hoisted the jolly roger, he did NOT pirate them, attempted or otherwise.
and peanuts.
"We don't breed when resources are rare."
History and current events disprove that claim handily, unless you're talking about some other humanity. We are dumber than animals. We breed LESS during abundance (modern US, Europe) and more in times of hardship (the US and Europe before key scientific advances). Africa and all the other slum nations are breeding at an alarming rate. Even within the US we see this on the smaller scale. Educated, affluent people have few children if any. They're too busy enjoying life. Our poor otoH, crank out the babies with great frequency.
The more of your post i read the more i think you're trolling or going for funny mod points.
Most people don't save money at all. If they put some extra cash each month in a savings account it's better than nothing but it still fizzles away at 6% or so per year. If they can invest it they will be more prepared for retirement (that's a good thing).
But like i said, most don't save. If they spend less on cooling they are likely to spend it on something else. Clothes, upgrading their cable or a Wii game or two. The money saved is unlikely to lie fallow.
i agree with the general idea that this isn't an economic growth thing in and of itself.
Jealousy is wanting to keep something to yourself, like a lover, or your money. Envy is wanting what someone else has, like wishing you had Jessie's girl.
It's far simpler and less cynical (less commie/pinko) than that. The issues at work are:
- People are different, we expect/want people to be the same.
- Many people do have conditions of one sort or another, in the past we called people lazy, undisciplined, mean/evil, bilious, possessed by demons. Now we know that have neurological conditions that makes it hard for them to get along with everyone else.
- We evolved to function in a certain environment. We don't live in that environment... we've changed it, but we haven't changed. So we have instincts that once saved our ancestors lives (eating whatever, whenever) are now killing us (obesity and all its attendant issues).
i'm having a Poe's Law moment here, but i'll bite.
My take is that Windows folks aren't in it for Windows. They regard their computer as a tool and a toy, not a statement about how special they are or any desire to belong. That's the domain of the persecuted minority. If you meet a Windows person railing about Apple products it's usually the result of years of hearing Mac Fanbois sneering at them. It gets old after a few years, so yeah, i like to let the macfags have a taste of their own medicine from time to time. i didn't care about Apple one way or the other until i started meeting fanbois who insisted they were oh so superior because of their choice of hardware. They insulted ME for not wanting to join their shared misery of overpaying for under powered gear.
Then they'll talk about viruses, not knowing that when their OS becomes the tall poppy the viruses will come. Interacting with others comes with the risk of catching cooties. Sure, you never get a cold because no one visits you. i know how to run antivirus software so i get to go to the fun parties.
i want a tool and a toy, not a club membership or fashion statement. i didn't crave "fitting in" when i was a kid, i don't crave it now. Being trendy is "fitting in" by the way, it's another flavor of conformity. Apple products are trendy (trendy is the opposite of cool). These are the kids who all dressed the same, listened to the same bands and bleated about how individual they were.
If someone is a Mac user because of the work they do and are realistic about it, that's cool with me. By realistic i mean, they should acknowledge that they could do the same work (and more) on a Windows box and that it would cost less.
i don't care about Bill Gates the way the fanbois seem to care about Jobs. i do admire Gates' charity work. If Bill and Steve died on the same day the Windows folk might go "oh". The iQueefs would be crying and tearing their shirts in anguish.
There are OSX users who don't buy into the cult of Jobs and don't wait in line for days to get the latest iProduct, ***but we don't hear from them***. It's the fanbois who are doing all the shouting. They're the fundies of OSes.
Here's my experience with Linux. "Hey i just got this new laptop, let's install Ubuntu with this Wubi thing. Look, i'm running linux. Wow, this looks like crap because there's no driver for the video card. And there's NOTHING for me to run on this. Back to windows." Linux is neither chicken nor egg just yet for me. i won't use it because there's no reason, and developers won't make things for it because i won't use it. i'd LOVE to see Linux win the OS wars. But only if they ditch all the forks, and just have LINUX, and when there's stuff i can do with it.
The vast majority of Windows users don't know linux EXISTS and they don't care about OS wars. They want a tool and a toy for a good price. So they buy a cheap Dell and that's all they'll ever need.
The expensive thing isn't the military, it's the interest on the debt. That money buys NOTHING. Money spent on hardware has some use and resale value. What's the resale on money spent on interest? All the debt on the budget is theater for the voters. The right panders to the voters by promising lower taxes by removing programs that help brown or poor people. The left panders by saying they'll cut military to benefit brown and poor people. For some reason we fall for it every two years.
The Monetary Reform Act would wipe out the debt and bring inflation to a crawl instead of the 6% or so we see today. We have to fix what our money IS before we can fix the budget in a meaningful way.
Never saw up a mother board. Instead, saw down, over or under!
Was there an EMP that caused everyone with a sub 100 IQ decide that EVERY verb MUST have a preposition? Or was it a loss of funding to schools that caused them to stop teaching English?
There is a difference between arresting someone before they commit a crime and IMPRISONING someone before they commit a crime. Suicide is a crime in most places, an arrest before the crime is committed seems appropriate. It would ARREST the commission of the crime. If someone is building a pipe bomb to kill people, i want that fucker arrested BEFORE he kills. If member of a company are planning to embezzle from their customers, i have no problem with arresting them.
Whether these people should go to jail is another matter. Once arrested we can find out what the real story was, find out if they need counseling or help or imprisonment. But waiting until your mother has already been beaten to death when you knew it was going to happen is amoral at best. In my book it's somewhere between abetting and criminal indifference.
My only objection to the precrime system in the Minority Report movie was the treatment of the precogs. Arresting would be murderers would (and in the movie, did) deter premeditated murder. Only crimes of passion remained. That's frigging awesome.
Wubi will install Ubuntu on a Win7 machine will little effort.
i did that on my machine, but have seen ZERO reason to boot to Ubuntu since then. It's just taking space on my laptop's tiny HD.
Not insightful.
Sure, there are risks everywhere and they are a part of life. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't avoid them, be aware of them, prepare for them and so on. You present a false dichotomy of accepting whatever risks are present OR live nowhere.
There's a reasonable middle ground of say: not living on a fault line, not living in a frequent flood plain or if you live in tornado alley, to take steps to prepare for and mitigate the damage.
People being raped and murdered is also part of life. That doesn't make them suck any less, nor does it mean we should just accept them.
Anyone else find it troublesome that Bezos is putting $42M into THIS? Or more troublesome still, that Bezos HAS $42M. Or that he has $42M to THROW at anything?
At 4% that money could generate $1,680,000 per year for scholarships, or school renovations, health education or or or or or.
*sigh*
Aside from the bit about communism his sig is spot on.
The whole taxation/representation line is non-sequitur to the point of the sig.
The part about taxing "these people" doesn't parse in English. If you're talking about illegals, they generally don't pay taxes. Which is part of why they are here and why we want them gone (at least some of us). They don't pay into the system so they keep more of what they earn. The people who hire them (who are worse, in my mind, than the illegals) don't pay taxes either and so, get cheap labor. So it's a double whammy.
Immigrants, legal or not, don't get representation any more than tourists. If i'm in Paris on election day, i don't get to vote because... i'm not French, even though i am paying sales tax.
That's perfectly fair. That's the deal. If i want to vote in French elections i should become French. Moreover, i should abide by their LAWS.
Did the UK ever have slavery (in the sense that the US did)?
Just because country A disposed of slavery without a war doesn't mean that the US could have. The south was determined to keep their cheap labor. Determined enough to kill for it. And yes, it took a war to end it.
As for colonies, that may be in part due to the revolution. The empire might have changed its dealing with colonies. And over time, the character of the empire changed. It wasn't the same king dealing with India as the US. Different situations are different.
The Nazi rise was a consequence of a few evil bastards taking advantage of a situation, followed by people who believed them and gave them power. Sure, the end of WW I should have been handled differently, but the blame for WW II lies squarely with the Axis powers. And it did indeed take a war to stop them.
Evil men stop only when forced or bribed to stop. To see this more clearly we can look to WW II again. Weak men sold Poland to Germany in the hopes that they would be eaten last. The Nazis saw this weakness for what it was and kept going. A moment's strength after the annexation of the Sudetenland could have saved tens of millions of lives.
The ending of WW I does not excuse what the Nazis did anymore than a woman wearing a revealing outfit excuses rape. The blame lies squarely on the perpetrator, not the victim.
Your last sentence is the only one that makes sense. But in all but a few cases, it's the evil men that start the war and the good men have to stop it.
Y can't Tori read?
"So if things really need to be done different, well let's hear it then. However all I see here is bitching that amounts to "Girls don't like online FPSes." To that I say:
1) So what? There are plenty of other kinds of games. We can have games for all kinds of people, not every game need to be targeted to every person (as such a thing would fail)."
Ah, but we MUST have proportional representation in all things and all categories. If blacks are underrepresented in CompSci degrees then CompSci programs are racist. If blacks aren't interested in CompSci they must be forced into it.
If women aren't playing FPSes, it must be due to the misogynistic maleocracy pushing them away. FPSes must be required to allow players to wear skirts, make up and have spaces to decorate while talking about their feelings. Clearly men don't include these things in shooters to exclude women.
*sigh*
i call for a Rule 34 check!
Piracy is ship to ship armed robbery, kidnapping and murder.
Not to take away from the funniness of this post...
The I in RAID stands for Independent, not Inexpensive.
Can i have my dollar back, man? i'm hungry.
It's hard enough to deliver a beam with enough power to do something once, doing it twice in one shot would be very tough. It would be easier to strap a laser on a plane. Easier still to send a missile or bomb to the target.
The directed energy and electromagnetic weapons intended to protect the surface ships of the future:
Terminated.
The directed energy and electromagnetic weapons intended to protect the surface ships of the future is Terminated.
Or ideally:
The Senate terminated the the directed energy...
No passive voice, no misused question mark. Much better.