I don't know of any government in history that used a pure system. Even in planned economies there's usually a healthy black market. (I say "usually" only because I don't know if it's true in every instance. Where I know for sure, I don't actually know any cases where one did not or does not exist.) Obviously there are broad segments of the US economy that are regulated, and even lacking that regulation a certain amount of restriction can be accomplished via tariffs. But I think one is safe in saying that the US economy is broadly free in a loose sense, which is how people usually mean it unless they're determined to nitpick.
Sure. All those centrally planned economies that have historically been so prosperous give the lie to the very idea that free markets are the best way to go.
What, there aren't any? Oops...
Sorry, but you fail. No one on the American Left who might actually get elected into office favors a centrally planned economy. Since the US does in fact use a free-market economy, it's important that it be properly understood. Nowhere did this test claim to be solely about government.
For people who say they are the target of mind control or gang stalking, there may be enough evidence in the scientific literature to fan their beliefs. [...] Recently the sites have linked to an article published in September in Time magazine, "The Army's Totally Serious Mind-Control Project," which described a $4 million contract given to the Army to develop "thought helmets" that would allow troops to communicate through brain waves on the battlefield.
I don't understand how this legitimizes any of those mass delusions. If anything, examples like these go a long way to show that government spending is disgustingly influenced by a lack of education, common sense, and yes: sanity.
Brain waves on the battlefield, specifically negative waves, have been a concern of the US Army every since WWII.
What decline in piracy? The global warming connection was intended as a joke, and only talked about pirates from the so-called golden age of piracy. There are plenty of pirates around these days, and they prey on shipping as effectively as ever.
We have it now, I suppose, as the only MMO that has managed to hold my attention for any amount of time is Korean. Yes to the micro-payments, but it's only as grindy as you want to make it.
You clearly haven't seen what happens when unqualified women dress that way. And by 'unqualified' I mean 'in possession of an ass the size of Wisconsin'.
"Case history" is not "case studies". It's an overview of caselaw, discussing how the law has actually been applied in the courts. In other words, it's exactly what you're asking for: how bad IP policy has made an impact.
A case study isn't necessarily anecdotal either in the usual sense of the term, as long as the case is selected in an intelligent way.
It's the difference between Common Law, as used in the British Commonwealth and former British colonies like the US, and Civil Law as used most other places. In Common Law countries, using a law professor's article in an argument would at best be ignored and at worst get you laughed out of court if it didn't conform to precedent; but in Civil Law countries it may well decide the case.
the municipality is unprepared for the onerous costs of maintaining such a network, and would lack the expertise to do so.
Because it's impossible for anyone to so much as break even on such a network. TDS would be laying its own network out of the goodness of it's corporate heart. And it's utterly impossible to hire network techs and sysadmins in today's job market...
I'm not bothering to read the reply. You appeal to dictionary definitions, which do not give the primary meanings of these words as used in the objectionable quotes. And then, unfathomably, to Crick's catchphrase, which has nothing to do with the subject. At least the definition of 'dogma' in the dictionary is in error, as anyone with more than a kindergarten-level of education in Christianity would know.
The sense in which the article is using "superstition". It's evidently being used as a label for the "inference engine" we use to connect causes and effects when we have insufficient data, not as a pejorative for irrational beliefs.
The proper meaning of "dogma". It's a statement that is formally accepted as an accurate restatement of the raw data behind it. Religious dogma is formulated based on a body of teaching regarded as authoritative and an authentic revelation. A scientific dogma might be formulated based on a broad collection of measurements. "Dogmatic superstition" is therefore a formalized system of connected causes and effects. It would be irrationally optimistic -- indeed unscientific -- to believe that all such connections discussed in scientific literature are not susceptible to falsification with better data.
That working scientists are just as prone to fallible thinking and unreasonable beliefs as the next human being. Science works because its methods are applied more often than not on average across all scientists. On an individual level, scientists are quite capable of clinging to beliefs in the face of mounting contrary evidence. It happens all the time.
Very much about science if you think "the nature of reality" is what it discovers
Very much about religion, if you think that most of what is said against it here refutes any of it. Most critique of religion offered on this site approaches the subject from the kindergarten level, and can't even be taken seriously enough to refute. One would spend most of the time correcting faulty assumptions, without which most arguments simply evaporate.
No. He's a "practicing Catholic". That means he has an authoritative interpretation of the Bible to which he much adhere if he's to remain true to his faith. And despite some historical oddities, the Catholic Church has never regarded the Bible as a science textbook.
Actually, none of the past "scientific"" controversies involving the Churhc were over dogma. You would search in vain through the Church's dogmatic statements for a geocentric model of the solar system: it ain't there and never was.
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I don't know of any government in history that used a pure system. Even in planned economies there's usually a healthy black market. (I say "usually" only because I don't know if it's true in every instance. Where I know for sure, I don't actually know any cases where one did not or does not exist.) Obviously there are broad segments of the US economy that are regulated, and even lacking that regulation a certain amount of restriction can be accomplished via tariffs. But I think one is safe in saying that the US economy is broadly free in a loose sense, which is how people usually mean it unless they're determined to nitpick.
To be accurate, much of civics is history. Much of it has to do with understanding our political traditions and their historical roots.
I find it moderately alarming that even with your claimed terrible memory you thought the any of the alternatives for Question 8 were correct.
I missed #33 myself, only because the correct answer was a tautology and I thought there must be more to it than that.
Sure. All those centrally planned economies that have historically been so prosperous give the lie to the very idea that free markets are the best way to go.
What, there aren't any? Oops...
Sorry, but you fail. No one on the American Left who might actually get elected into office favors a centrally planned economy. Since the US does in fact use a free-market economy, it's important that it be properly understood. Nowhere did this test claim to be solely about government.
No.
It could have even stunt-doubled for a tribble.
It's a joke, son. Or did you even click on the link? Kelly's Heroes is a very well-known WWII comedy.
I don't understand how this legitimizes any of those mass delusions. If anything, examples like these go a long way to show that government spending is disgustingly influenced by a lack of education, common sense, and yes: sanity.
Brain waves on the battlefield, specifically negative waves, have been a concern of the US Army every since WWII.
What decline in piracy? The global warming connection was intended as a joke, and only talked about pirates from the so-called golden age of piracy. There are plenty of pirates around these days, and they prey on shipping as effectively as ever.
The "old school" was MIT. The "new school" was Princeton.
Because he's not a Libertarian.
We have it now, I suppose, as the only MMO that has managed to hold my attention for any amount of time is Korean. Yes to the micro-payments, but it's only as grindy as you want to make it.
Hell, there's probably one dedicated to it.
You clearly haven't seen what happens when unqualified women dress that way. And by 'unqualified' I mean 'in possession of an ass the size of Wisconsin'.
Since he didn't invent the term, forever.
"Case history" is not "case studies". It's an overview of caselaw, discussing how the law has actually been applied in the courts. In other words, it's exactly what you're asking for: how bad IP policy has made an impact.
A case study isn't necessarily anecdotal either in the usual sense of the term, as long as the case is selected in an intelligent way.
Ernst Stavro Blofeld has had both offshore rigs and secret volcano lairs, and neither turned out to be impervious to Sean Connery.
It's the difference between Common Law, as used in the British Commonwealth and former British colonies like the US, and Civil Law as used most other places. In Common Law countries, using a law professor's article in an argument would at best be ignored and at worst get you laughed out of court if it didn't conform to precedent; but in Civil Law countries it may well decide the case.
the municipality is unprepared for the onerous costs of maintaining such a network, and would lack the expertise to do so.
Because it's impossible for anyone to so much as break even on such a network. TDS would be laying its own network out of the goodness of it's corporate heart. And it's utterly impossible to hire network techs and sysadmins in today's job market...
I'm not bothering to read the reply. You appeal to dictionary definitions, which do not give the primary meanings of these words as used in the objectionable quotes. And then, unfathomably, to Crick's catchphrase, which has nothing to do with the subject. At least the definition of 'dogma' in the dictionary is in error, as anyone with more than a kindergarten-level of education in Christianity would know.
Citing a philosopher who went insane before much of his work saw publication is not a good argument for evolutionary fitness.
No. He's a "practicing Catholic". That means he has an authoritative interpretation of the Bible to which he much adhere if he's to remain true to his faith. And despite some historical oddities, the Catholic Church has never regarded the Bible as a science textbook.
Actually, none of the past "scientific"" controversies involving the Churhc were over dogma. You would search in vain through the Church's dogmatic statements for a geocentric model of the solar system: it ain't there and never was.
Sure. I'm just interested in how he's going to weasel it.