I'm gonna have to go and guess that the questions we asked focused on eating something from one's foot and other inane shit of that variety. Nothing to see here...
Not carrying out "eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth" (where does that come from? Possibly the WORST example of literary fairness/justice there is. Mankind bad? I'll just drown the fucking lot of you in a flood....).
You seem to be attributing "eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth" to the Abrahamic religions. The Code of Hammurabi dates to 1772BC, which predates the Hebrew bible. Hammurabi was poking out eyes long before Noah was ever a figment of some writer's imagination.
If this is surprising to you, I invite you to take a look at all the other ways one's perception of reality can be influenced by the beliefs of those around them. I, as an atheist, have been disturbed by this observation for some time now.
So, even by optimistic standards, the industrial revolution actually resulted in a half century of record unemployment and massively widespread poverty. Isn't that what I said originally?
A series of 1950s essays by Henry Phelps Brown and Sheila V. Hopkins later set the academic consensus that the bulk of the population, that was at the bottom of the social ladder, suffered severe reductions in their living standards.
Emphasis mine. I see your baseless claim and raise you a citation.
At the risk of seeming pedantic, I can't help but mention that communism has never been tried, so any talk of trying it again is inaccurate.
You simply can't risk going along with someone that claims they're trying it, sure. Actually trying it, though, might still be worthwhile, although I wouldn't blame people for being skeptical that it's actually communism we're trying and not a populist facade on despotism.
Or, conversely, it is reasonable to conclude that "communism" is an effective populist sales pitch that was favored by aspiring dictators over that 70 year span.
But maybe that doesn't quite jive with your worldview.
If the Walmart cashier is saving you time, you're the slowest person I've ever heard of. The reason so many people prefer the self checkout lanes is because of how much faster customers are than cashiers at scanning barcodes.
For me it's the opposite. The minimum wage idiot at the cash register usually moves slower than my grandmother, drawling on about "How you doing today?" and other irrelevant shit. I have neither the time nor the inclination to deal with these people, so self checkout has been a godsend for me.
When I was in high school, I held several different cashier jobs. Based on my experience then, as well as my shopping experience ever since, I can say that an overwhelming majority of cashiers are unbelievably terrible at their jobs.
A higher minimum wage won't help any of the displaced workers.
Perhaps another approach might make more sense. Perhaps we can get rid of the minimum wage entirely while also providing a base income to all people, employed or not. The base income could be funded by tax revenues from those who are employed.
What kind of computer science program doesn't cover calculus up through differential equations? How are you supposed to understand asymptotic analysis without L'Hopital's rule? Granted, physics probably isn't a specific requirement, but don't most computer science degrees require at least two semesters of hard science (with lab)? I know mine did, just for the associates, and this was at a county college.
To be fair to Carter, most of the problems with the hostage rescue were actually a result of the USA covertly installing a puppet government in a sovereign nation and continued use of the US embassy in Tehran as a forward operating base by American intelligency agents.
Get a degree in Electrical Engineering from your nearest State University, filling all your elective credits with Computer Science courses.
Gets you access to all those "4 year degree" tech jobs, plus a whole slew of other tech jobs that you didn't know existed. That's what I did because I didn't want to pigeonhole myself into a field that is rife with bubbles and outsourcing. Worse case scenario, if at some point I can't find work writing code, I can try to get a job with the power company, a telco, etc.
Honestly, I didn't really mind the landscape. A fascinating change of scenery compared to the eastern seaboard. I was mostly joking.
That being said, on route 54, somewhere roughly halfway between Alamogordo and El Paso, there's a little "Red Wagon Grill" food truck in a "town" called Orogrande. This guy makes awesome burgers. Worth the drive, especially if you have a radar detector.
That's my point. It's a state composed almost entirely of barren desert wastelands, with occasional nuclear test sites sprinkled about. Dropping this transuranic waste there probably wouldn't have any measurable impact on the current background radiation levels.
Also, I'm joking. Lighten up and throw this stuff into a breeder reactor. One man's transuranic waste is another man's reactor fuel.
It's New Mexico. You don't need a bedded salt formation. Just throw that shit anywhere, the whole state is a scrap heap (based on driving around the strech of wasteland between El Paso, White Sands Missile Range, and Carlsbad Cavern).
On a more serious note, why are we burying highly radioactive material instead of using it to generate electricity? If it's too hot to throw away, surely it's hot enough to spin turbines.
Okay, BitZtream/sjbe, I didn't realize you had two accounts. In any case, yes, if you eat meat while complaining about the ethics of hunting, then you're a hypocrit. Of course, if you don't eat meat [or other animal products], you can complain about the ethics of hunting without being a hypocrit. I wasn't suggesting that all non-vegans are hypocrits. Only the ones that complain about the ethics of hunting. Reading comprehension for the win.
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Has he stated that MVPV is his favorite? That's news to me. If so, a citation would be nice.
... What?
Hammurabi was a historical person who existed in time. The others you mention are fictional characters who exist outside of time.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Does the GEICO caveman predate George Washington? I mean, he's a caveman, right?
You have a documented interest in psychoactive drugs. Which is your favorite, and why?
I'm gonna have to go and guess that the questions we asked focused on eating something from one's foot and other inane shit of that variety. Nothing to see here...
Not carrying out "eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth" (where does that come from? Possibly the WORST example of literary fairness/justice there is. Mankind bad? I'll just drown the fucking lot of you in a flood....).
You seem to be attributing "eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth" to the Abrahamic religions. The Code of Hammurabi dates to 1772BC, which predates the Hebrew bible. Hammurabi was poking out eyes long before Noah was ever a figment of some writer's imagination.
If this is surprising to you, I invite you to take a look at all the other ways one's perception of reality can be influenced by the beliefs of those around them. I, as an atheist, have been disturbed by this observation for some time now.
Most optimists, by contrast, believe that living standards were rising by the 1810s or 1820s, or even earlier.
The industrial revolution started around 1760. 1810 was (1810-1760)=50 years later. 50 years is half a century.
How am I delusional?
So, even by optimistic standards, the industrial revolution actually resulted in a half century of record unemployment and massively widespread poverty. Isn't that what I said originally?
A series of 1950s essays by Henry Phelps Brown and Sheila V. Hopkins later set the academic consensus that the bulk of the population, that was at the bottom of the social ladder, suffered severe reductions in their living standards.
Emphasis mine. I see your baseless claim and raise you a citation.
At the risk of seeming pedantic, I can't help but mention that communism has never been tried, so any talk of trying it again is inaccurate.
You simply can't risk going along with someone that claims they're trying it, sure. Actually trying it, though, might still be worthwhile, although I wouldn't blame people for being skeptical that it's actually communism we're trying and not a populist facade on despotism.
Agreed, but that's not a valid mark against communism.
Or, conversely, it is reasonable to conclude that "communism" is an effective populist sales pitch that was favored by aspiring dictators over that 70 year span.
But maybe that doesn't quite jive with your worldview.
What would people need profit for if prices are at zero?
And here I thought that the industrial revolution actually resulted in a half century of record unemployment and massively widespread poverty.
Indeed, why should it be different this time?
If the Walmart cashier is saving you time, you're the slowest person I've ever heard of. The reason so many people prefer the self checkout lanes is because of how much faster customers are than cashiers at scanning barcodes.
For me it's the opposite. The minimum wage idiot at the cash register usually moves slower than my grandmother, drawling on about "How you doing today?" and other irrelevant shit. I have neither the time nor the inclination to deal with these people, so self checkout has been a godsend for me.
When I was in high school, I held several different cashier jobs. Based on my experience then, as well as my shopping experience ever since, I can say that an overwhelming majority of cashiers are unbelievably terrible at their jobs.
A higher minimum wage won't help any of the displaced workers.
Perhaps another approach might make more sense. Perhaps we can get rid of the minimum wage entirely while also providing a base income to all people, employed or not. The base income could be funded by tax revenues from those who are employed.
What kind of computer science program doesn't cover calculus up through differential equations? How are you supposed to understand asymptotic analysis without L'Hopital's rule? Granted, physics probably isn't a specific requirement, but don't most computer science degrees require at least two semesters of hard science (with lab)? I know mine did, just for the associates, and this was at a county college.
intelligence agents too.
To be fair to Carter, most of the problems with the hostage rescue were actually a result of the USA covertly installing a puppet government in a sovereign nation and continued use of the US embassy in Tehran as a forward operating base by American intelligency agents.
Get a degree in Electrical Engineering from your nearest State University, filling all your elective credits with Computer Science courses.
Gets you access to all those "4 year degree" tech jobs, plus a whole slew of other tech jobs that you didn't know existed. That's what I did because I didn't want to pigeonhole myself into a field that is rife with bubbles and outsourcing. Worse case scenario, if at some point I can't find work writing code, I can try to get a job with the power company, a telco, etc.
Honestly, I didn't really mind the landscape. A fascinating change of scenery compared to the eastern seaboard. I was mostly joking.
That being said, on route 54, somewhere roughly halfway between Alamogordo and El Paso, there's a little "Red Wagon Grill" food truck in a "town" called Orogrande. This guy makes awesome burgers. Worth the drive, especially if you have a radar detector.
That's my point. It's a state composed almost entirely of barren desert wastelands, with occasional nuclear test sites sprinkled about. Dropping this transuranic waste there probably wouldn't have any measurable impact on the current background radiation levels.
Also, I'm joking. Lighten up and throw this stuff into a breeder reactor. One man's transuranic waste is another man's reactor fuel.
Why would Google lower the resolution of satellite imagery only to go and purchase even-higher-resolution aerial imagery?
It's New Mexico. You don't need a bedded salt formation. Just throw that shit anywhere, the whole state is a scrap heap (based on driving around the strech of wasteland between El Paso, White Sands Missile Range, and Carlsbad Cavern).
On a more serious note, why are we burying highly radioactive material instead of using it to generate electricity? If it's too hot to throw away, surely it's hot enough to spin turbines.
You're either a vegan or a hypocrit.
Emphasis mine.
Okay, BitZtream/sjbe, I didn't realize you had two accounts. In any case, yes, if you eat meat while complaining about the ethics of hunting, then you're a hypocrit. Of course, if you don't eat meat [or other animal products], you can complain about the ethics of hunting without being a hypocrit. I wasn't suggesting that all non-vegans are hypocrits. Only the ones that complain about the ethics of hunting. Reading comprehension for the win.