My argument is just as strong as the argument I was responding to, which claims that the quality of the media affects whether or not someone is going to listen to an argument -- ie, judging the book by its cover. However, using Lessig in the first place is an appeal to authority, a rhetorical technique which often works best if the authority is recognized as such, so the quality of the video is secondary to the subject (not the topic) of the video.
How many people who might vote for mccain either know or care who Lessig is anyway? I won't be voting for McCain, and I'm only marginally aware myself.
At the same time, intra-race variations usualy are a lot more signifigant then inter-race ones. I recall a study showing that the Scott's and Irish on average, show much lower IQ scores then the English. Yet racists tend to ignore that.
It depends on the racist, I suppose. The Ian Paisleys of the world are a lot fewer than the David Dukes, that's for sure, but all of them do so love that band "Skrewdriver."
If our lives were closer to natural, it would be more obvious. That tecnhology has enabled us to all but remove the need for evolution, then biological adaptations approach moot.
-- The ancestors of Northern Europeans (and those of us whose ancestors originated there) have light skin and eyes because it was advantageous to have less melonin for Vitamin D production, and blue eyes allow in more light than brown eyes.
-- Africans and other Equitorial people are darker of skin and eyes for exactly the opposite reason. Likewise, being a carrier of Sickle Cell Anemia is an advantage in Africa, as it is a natural protection against malaria (although actually having sickle cell is a drawback)
The fact that we now have sun glasses, sun screen, vitamin supplements and medicine means that "white" people can manage in the tropics and that "black" people can manage farther north.
Of course, when it comes down to fights such as the Yugoslavian war (Serbian and Croation are the same language with different alphabets), Indian/Pakistan (Hindu and Urdu are the same language with different alphabets), etc... the lines are blurry and it becomes an issue of perception more than anything really substantive.
However, to say that evolution and adaption work for animals, but are irrelevant to people is pretty god damned stupid.
However, yes, OP was using sources which don't really back up what he was trying to say.
If Hitler had taken out the Russians, we wouldn't be having this coversation right now. Anyway, despite whatever war propaganda you may have heard, it is quite obvious that it was not a priority of the NSDAP, nor of Hitler, to pursue agressiong with the Western allies.
France and Britain declared war on Germany first, then it was several weeks before the Germans did anything about it, and then merely to close the Western flank.
Roosevelt goaded the Japanese into attacking us so that we could fight it out with them -- but that also meant getting into it with Germany and Italy due to the Tripartied Pact.
Yes, World War I was a complete and total waste of time. Not a shot had been fired on German soil. Germany had not lost any territory. The Western Allies were about to capitulate and peace was going to be agreed upon. American involvement in the war merely prolonged it, allowing the French, who should have lost, to force Germany under the yolk, and that created the situation which lead to WWII.
The Civil War is not a foreign war and so it doesn't count for purposes of this discussion. I was born in New York, grew up in Virginia, with extended stays in New York, New Hampshire, and Ireland, and frankly just consider myself "East Coast" if I must be anything -- so I would just as soon keep out of that one.
I have many Eastern European friends, including Georgians, so it could just be my absorbed prejudices however, I do think Russia has gone beyond the pale on this.
Fighting in Georgia would be the first legitimate war we've gotten into since 1812. I seriously doubt that it'd work out, and right now we can't do it anyway. But at least it would be the right thing to do.
Then again, I also don't care of those "break away" provinces break away -- let them for all I care. I also support Chechnya, the Basques and a slew of other things. Freedom good, Empire dickish.
The "Corporation" in the "Corporate State" is a vertical trade guild -- ie, a Syndicate. Fascism is Guild Socialism mixed with Nationalism. Mussolini started out as a Communist, as his father had been. It is NOT the same thing as a corporation in the sense which most people think.
Our economies are skewed right now, our countries don't have any real goals, tangible goals. Building environmentally friendly cities (converting actually), are concrete, positive goals. All will benefit "economically" from such goals.
You might be giving too much credit to the central planners there, Comrade. But yes, I agree -- there needs to be a major shift in the direction of society as a whole. Unfortunately, that sort of mass movement is best accomplished through Authoritarian means -- ie, Communism or Fascism.
Using the topic to push a personal political opinion is flamebait. A reply which is exactly the opposite illustrates the irony of the argument, and thus is funny.
The next few people playing off of the original joke with their own variation are hoping to get caught up in a time-honoured slashdot tradition of karma-whoring threads.
My father was an airline pilot for years and recently retired. His opinion of the matter is that the reason TSA searches little old white grannies (and myself -- constantly. I've pretty much given up on flying because I **ALWAYS** get taggged) is that they don't WANT to find anything which they might have to deal with.
They harass pilots and take their nailclippers -- as if the captain of the plane needs nailclippers to hijack a plane that he's already in command of (mind you, there is a fire ax in the cockpit that can chop through the bulkhead).
The term the pilots use most often for it all is "political eyewash." Not that it matters, because after 911, passengers aren't just going to sit by for a hijacking ever again. The "rules" have changed. This is no longer the 1980s. Its not like the "Delta Force" movies anymore.
Racist or not, it would probably be more reasonable to search people who actually fit the known profile of like, you know, everyone who has ever hijacked a plane ever... but that might mean that the TSA people would actually have to do something. Much easier just to harass grannies from Iowa than to try and thwart "terrorism"
So, you're saying that after we send all of the people with The Right Stuff to Mars, that they'll end up just as fat as the average America, but will at least have an excuse?
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That is perhaps the most assholish thing I've seen on the web in ages. What the hell is wrong with some people?
I sense a new ThinkGeek shirt in the near future, "I may not know art but I know how to code," anyone?
Where is that mythic paradise? Switzerland?
No, I didn't even watch the video 'cause that's too much like reading the article.
My argument is just as strong as the argument I was responding to, which claims that the quality of the media affects whether or not someone is going to listen to an argument -- ie, judging the book by its cover. However, using Lessig in the first place is an appeal to authority, a rhetorical technique which often works best if the authority is recognized as such, so the quality of the video is secondary to the subject (not the topic) of the video.
How many people who might vote for mccain either know or care who Lessig is anyway? I won't be voting for McCain, and I'm only marginally aware myself.
Any bets on how long it will be before O'Reilly labels this judge soft on paedophiles?
At the same time, intra-race variations usualy are a lot more signifigant then inter-race ones. I recall a study showing that the Scott's and Irish on average, show much lower IQ scores then the English. Yet racists tend to ignore that.
It depends on the racist, I suppose. The Ian Paisleys of the world are a lot fewer than the David Dukes, that's for sure, but all of them do so love that band "Skrewdriver."
If our lives were closer to natural, it would be more obvious. That tecnhology has enabled us to all but remove the need for evolution, then biological adaptations approach moot.
-- The ancestors of Northern Europeans (and those of us whose ancestors originated there) have light skin and eyes because it was advantageous to have less melonin for Vitamin D production, and blue eyes allow in more light than brown eyes.
-- Africans and other Equitorial people are darker of skin and eyes for exactly the opposite reason. Likewise, being a carrier of Sickle Cell Anemia is an advantage in Africa, as it is a natural protection against malaria (although actually having sickle cell is a drawback)
The fact that we now have sun glasses, sun screen, vitamin supplements and medicine means that "white" people can manage in the tropics and that "black" people can manage farther north.
Of course, when it comes down to fights such as the Yugoslavian war (Serbian and Croation are the same language with different alphabets), Indian/Pakistan (Hindu and Urdu are the same language with different alphabets), etc... the lines are blurry and it becomes an issue of perception more than anything really substantive.
However, to say that evolution and adaption work for animals, but are irrelevant to people is pretty god damned stupid.
However, yes, OP was using sources which don't really back up what he was trying to say.
If Hitler had taken out the Russians, we wouldn't be having this coversation right now. Anyway, despite whatever war propaganda you may have heard, it is quite obvious that it was not a priority of the NSDAP, nor of Hitler, to pursue agressiong with the Western allies.
France and Britain declared war on Germany first, then it was several weeks before the Germans did anything about it, and then merely to close the Western flank.
Roosevelt goaded the Japanese into attacking us so that we could fight it out with them -- but that also meant getting into it with Germany and Italy due to the Tripartied Pact.
Yes, World War I was a complete and total waste of time. Not a shot had been fired on German soil. Germany had not lost any territory. The Western Allies were about to capitulate and peace was going to be agreed upon. American involvement in the war merely prolonged it, allowing the French, who should have lost, to force Germany under the yolk, and that created the situation which lead to WWII.
The Civil War is not a foreign war and so it doesn't count for purposes of this discussion. I was born in New York, grew up in Virginia, with extended stays in New York, New Hampshire, and Ireland, and frankly just consider myself "East Coast" if I must be anything -- so I would just as soon keep out of that one.
I have many Eastern European friends, including Georgians, so it could just be my absorbed prejudices however, I do think Russia has gone beyond the pale on this.
Fighting in Georgia would be the first legitimate war we've gotten into since 1812. I seriously doubt that it'd work out, and right now we can't do it anyway. But at least it would be the right thing to do.
Then again, I also don't care of those "break away" provinces break away -- let them for all I care. I also support Chechnya, the Basques and a slew of other things. Freedom good, Empire dickish.
The "Corporation" in the "Corporate State" is a vertical trade guild -- ie, a Syndicate. Fascism is Guild Socialism mixed with Nationalism. Mussolini started out as a Communist, as his father had been. It is NOT the same thing as a corporation in the sense which most people think.
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Our economies are skewed right now, our countries don't have any real goals, tangible goals. Building environmentally friendly cities (converting actually), are concrete, positive goals. All will benefit "economically" from such goals.
You might be giving too much credit to the central planners there, Comrade. But yes, I agree -- there needs to be a major shift in the direction of society as a whole. Unfortunately, that sort of mass movement is best accomplished through Authoritarian means -- ie, Communism or Fascism.
Using the topic to push a personal political opinion is flamebait. A reply which is exactly the opposite illustrates the irony of the argument, and thus is funny.
The next few people playing off of the original joke with their own variation are hoping to get caught up in a time-honoured slashdot tradition of karma-whoring threads.
Outside of zombie/vampire movies, how much repeat business do funeral planners really get? The customer is usually one-time, satisfied or not :-p
Might your friend happen to be largely deaf now?
Well, that would be true of just about any parasite -- killing the host is bad for business, if you can't find another one.
I know, you'd think that for consistency's sake they'd have at least made use of the "nothing to see here, please move along" meme.
No, get someone else to provide the art. After all, you really just want to be the guy with the notebook.
My father was an airline pilot for years and recently retired. His opinion of the matter is that the reason TSA searches little old white grannies (and myself -- constantly. I've pretty much given up on flying because I **ALWAYS** get taggged) is that they don't WANT to find anything which they might have to deal with.
They harass pilots and take their nailclippers -- as if the captain of the plane needs nailclippers to hijack a plane that he's already in command of (mind you, there is a fire ax in the cockpit that can chop through the bulkhead).
The term the pilots use most often for it all is "political eyewash." Not that it matters, because after 911, passengers aren't just going to sit by for a hijacking ever again. The "rules" have changed. This is no longer the 1980s. Its not like the "Delta Force" movies anymore.
Racist or not, it would probably be more reasonable to search people who actually fit the known profile of like, you know, everyone who has ever hijacked a plane ever... but that might mean that the TSA people would actually have to do something. Much easier just to harass grannies from Iowa than to try and thwart "terrorism"
I was trying to be funny, but obviously failing
Is this why all the oil is in the middle east?
Perhaps one that can tell you the difference between "then" and "than" might make a good investment.
So, you're saying that after we send all of the people with The Right Stuff to Mars, that they'll end up just as fat as the average America, but will at least have an excuse?
I know... but I've got karma to burn.