You never know, I was talking to my 12 year old cousin just a week ago.
She wasn't very interested in Twilight, however, she kept constantly asking me questions about string theory, black holes and quantum physics. I was so proud! She is definitely a future slashdotter.
I'm sorry, but scientifically that makes no sense. You die mainly because of cell damage accumulation (although there are other factors involved). Even if her mutation is making her somehow age slower, it doesn't mean that her cells will magically accumulate less damage.
As an anarcho-communist, I have to say, I don't acknowledge property rights. Why? Because property rights boil down to "I was here first, I stuck a flag in it, it is mine", and everything had a flag stuck in it before I was born, and I refuse to acknowledge a system that considers all of this to be someone elses property. It is not. It is my birthright, to share with others of my generation. If you claim I do not have a right to my birthright, I consider that justification to kill you and take it by force. That sort of reasoning was exactly what lead to countless wars. Hitler and the Germans thought it was their birthright to take Europe. Saddam Hussein thought it was his birthright to take Kuwait. China took Tibet. They considered that justification to kill people and take those countries by force.
Say you kill a landowner for his land. Now the land is yours. The next generation has no land. Who do you think they will want to kill?
Sorry, I do not want a war every generation because people feel it's their birthright to have land. It is not. Study, work, make money, buy it. I did, why can't you? If you try to take something that is rightfully mine because you are too lazy to work for it, then I reserve the right to kill you.
That is the evil of Communism, when you think everything belongs to everyone, individuals have nothing and the government owns everything. Anarchic Communism is even worse, because everyone thinks they have the right to everything, and without any government to keep the order, we'd be in a constant state of war.
I'm sorry, we are all observing the event from Earth. Since we all have a common point of observation in space time, we can actually make comments about when the event took place.
If we didn't take Earth to be our common point of reference, then it would be impossible to come up with any numbers regarding the age of the universe from example. When inquired about when the big bang happened a smart ass scientist could respond: "10 billion or 17 billion years ago, depending from where you are looking."
Extremely bad taste in whose eyes? I also live in Brazil, and while I don't really like most things "brega", to translate it as "having extremely bad taste" is biased. Brega might literally translate to "tacky", but in this context, it would be something closer to "tacky-chic". (And I was particularly blown away by how bigoted your perspective is when you said "imagine rednecks, but a 1000 times worse".)
Historically, Brazilian music has always come from your so called "low-wage freeloaders". Samba is one of the best examples, it was born in the slums and no one can deny its contributions to the music scene in Brazil and internationally. Brazil "is" Samba.
You think people are poor because they want to be poor? Do you really expect people to pay taxes when the minimum wage is 150 dollars a month? (And don't say living costs are much lower too, because while it may be true for your basics like housing and food, everything else costs a fortune, cars cost 2 times more, [The simplest Civic Model costs us $34,000, while in the US they pay $15,000] and look at Brazil's position in the IPod-Index, we pay $369.61 for a $150 worth 4GB Nano)
It is true, the middle class carries the burden of paying huge taxes, except who said that the middle class isn't also to blame? Most of the middle class are constantly applying for public jobs, which in Brazil basically means you can't be fired, you will get paid and get raises and promotions even after you retire and on top of that, you have all sorts of social benefits. And we have millions upon millions of people employed by the government in jobs that we don't need.
I do agree with your "The leftist corrupt government caters to these people, giving out more government aid and tax-cuts, because then they vote for them." comment though, but what is the middle class doing about that? Nothing, they are applying for public jobs, leaving the country or just quietly complaining complacently.
Anyway, I'm not trying to make this a debate about economics and politics in Brazil, but what you are basically saying is that since they are poor and freeloaders, what they do have no value. Just because they don't have money to buy CDs that cost 10% of their minimum wage each ($15), doesn't mean that this whole distribution system is unrealistic. We should follow their lead here instead of bashing them and dismissing their contribution.
As a matter of fact, I think this model would work even better with mainstream music, where the target audience has Internet access and is willing to pay $50+ dollars to attend a concert.
Maybe the social gap in Brazil wouldn't be so big if people were looking for ways to unite instead of dividing us.
Here in Brazil we have had a nationwide electronic voting system for ages (And a national voting day), and it works perfectly. We know who our elected officials are before the end of the day. If a "third world" country (And a very big one at that) can do it, how come the richest country in the world is having so much trouble with it?
Erm, no one was talking about actually getting 10 square centimeters of water, putting in a container and coming up with the kilogram.
If you can define that 10 square centimeters of water at X degrees and at X air pressure is equivalent to 1 kilogram, you can establish through a few simple calculations, how much is a kilogram, without ever having to weight anything.
Well, it's different. When you talk about Santa Claus or the tooth fairy, you are talking about very specific beliefs. That's EXACTLY why agnostics are agnostics, they think that if there is a god, the chance that we would have gotten this god guy all figured out is pretty slim, so every religion is really just as good (or bad) as the next.
Being an atheist is denying the existence of the unknown, but how can you deny what you don't know its there? I prefer the scientific approach, if I can prove or disprove it, fine, if I can't, no need to dwell on it.
If even science knows that they don't have it all figured out, why do atheists think they do?
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You never know, I was talking to my 12 year old cousin just a week ago.
She wasn't very interested in Twilight, however, she kept constantly asking me questions about string theory, black holes and quantum physics.
I was so proud! She is definitely a future slashdotter.
I'm sorry, but scientifically that makes no sense. You die mainly because of cell damage accumulation (although there are other factors involved). Even if her mutation is making her somehow age slower, it doesn't mean that her cells will magically accumulate less damage.
Ah, the Human way of finding life:
Astronaut 1: "So, any signs of life?"
Astronaut 2: *shooting a flamethrower at the ground* "None."
Astronaut 1: "Ok, just to be sure let's blow everything up and scan the debris."
Scientists are baffled by the realization that most things that matter are either Good - Or Bad.
Say you kill a landowner for his land. Now the land is yours. The next generation has no land. Who do you think they will want to kill?
Sorry, I do not want a war every generation because people feel it's their birthright to have land. It is not. Study, work, make money, buy it. I did, why can't you? If you try to take something that is rightfully mine because you are too lazy to work for it, then I reserve the right to kill you.
That is the evil of Communism, when you think everything belongs to everyone, individuals have nothing and the government owns everything. Anarchic Communism is even worse, because everyone thinks they have the right to everything, and without any government to keep the order, we'd be in a constant state of war.
I'm sorry, we are all observing the event from Earth. Since we all have a common point of observation in space time, we can actually make comments about when the event took place.
If we didn't take Earth to be our common point of reference, then it would be impossible to come up with any numbers regarding the age of the universe from example. When inquired about when the big bang happened a smart ass scientist could respond: "10 billion or 17 billion years ago, depending from where you are looking."
If kids got Epics in MMORPGs for getting As, they would be studying instead of farming mindlessly.
Something else that is now OVER 9000!!!!!111
Whats next? "TOP 10 TV BOOBS" and "RON PAUL TAKES A DUMP (PICS)"?
Yeah, and we all know that we shouldn't send mixed signals to our enemies. That's why I propose we nuke the moon to prove we mean business.
Does that mean that Overlord Goorg W. Moohsh from planet UrSA911c is about to announce that we have secret weapons of mass destruction?
For them to trap sound in a bucket.
Except you can call the police if they are hacking into your machine. That is a federal offense.
A big improvement from the predicted "State-Sized Solid TB Drives".
"As we all know, sometimes it's just a case of who gets to market first that wins in the technology world."
As long as your product doesn't suck, that is.
Too soon?
You know what other aircraft was hydrogen powered? THE HINDENBURG! *hides under the desk*
Extremely bad taste in whose eyes? I also live in Brazil, and while I don't really like most things "brega", to translate it as "having extremely bad taste" is biased. Brega might literally translate to "tacky", but in this context, it would be something closer to "tacky-chic". (And I was particularly blown away by how bigoted your perspective is when you said "imagine rednecks, but a 1000 times worse".)
Historically, Brazilian music has always come from your so called "low-wage freeloaders". Samba is one of the best examples, it was born in the slums and no one can deny its contributions to the music scene in Brazil and internationally. Brazil "is" Samba.
You think people are poor because they want to be poor? Do you really expect people to pay taxes when the minimum wage is 150 dollars a month? (And don't say living costs are much lower too, because while it may be true for your basics like housing and food, everything else costs a fortune, cars cost 2 times more, [The simplest Civic Model costs us $34,000, while in the US they pay $15,000] and look at Brazil's position in the IPod-Index, we pay $369.61 for a $150 worth 4GB Nano)
It is true, the middle class carries the burden of paying huge taxes, except who said that the middle class isn't also to blame? Most of the middle class are constantly applying for public jobs, which in Brazil basically means you can't be fired, you will get paid and get raises and promotions even after you retire and on top of that, you have all sorts of social benefits. And we have millions upon millions of people employed by the government in jobs that we don't need.
I do agree with your "The leftist corrupt government caters to these people, giving out more government aid and tax-cuts, because then they vote for them." comment though, but what is the middle class doing about that? Nothing, they are applying for public jobs, leaving the country or just quietly complaining complacently.
Anyway, I'm not trying to make this a debate about economics and politics in Brazil, but what you are basically saying is that since they are poor and freeloaders, what they do have no value. Just because they don't have money to buy CDs that cost 10% of their minimum wage each ($15), doesn't mean that this whole distribution system is unrealistic. We should follow their lead here instead of bashing them and dismissing their contribution.
As a matter of fact, I think this model would work even better with mainstream music, where the target audience has Internet access and is willing to pay $50+ dollars to attend a concert.
Maybe the social gap in Brazil wouldn't be so big if people were looking for ways to unite instead of dividing us.
Plus, people like you suck. Real bad.
Here in Brazil we have had a nationwide electronic voting system for ages (And a national voting day), and it works perfectly. We know who our elected officials are before the end of the day. If a "third world" country (And a very big one at that) can do it, how come the richest country in the world is having so much trouble with it?
Erm, no one was talking about actually getting 10 square centimeters of water, putting in a container and coming up with the kilogram.
If you can define that 10 square centimeters of water at X degrees and at X air pressure is equivalent to 1 kilogram, you can establish through a few simple calculations, how much is a kilogram, without ever having to weight anything.
Well, it's different. When you talk about Santa Claus or the tooth fairy, you are talking about very specific beliefs. That's EXACTLY why agnostics are agnostics, they think that if there is a god, the chance that we would have gotten this god guy all figured out is pretty slim, so every religion is really just as good (or bad) as the next.
Being an atheist is denying the existence of the unknown, but how can you deny what you don't know its there? I prefer the scientific approach, if I can prove or disprove it, fine, if I can't, no need to dwell on it.
If even science knows that they don't have it all figured out, why do atheists think they do?
Can they stunlock or are there diminishing returns?
Unfortunately their TV series suck... But their stand up is great
Yeah! I love Andy's parties!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlYkIJVguCU
Well, no wonder Andy throws such great parties.