Guy's done what's required to warrant obscene amounts of care being provided to him. He's offered value in return for it in the form of cash and his sick smart brain.
That's not Capitalism. Capitalism is about equality of opportunity like Socialism and Communism are about equality of results. What we currently have is more along the lines of selling two flavors of lies about equality for an office and then selling that office for cash.
Class has nothing to do with how much money someone makes. It's all about their role in our economic system.
The working-class hold jobs and the middle-class create jobs. If your example family heads are working for a hospital, they're just drawing a wage. If they're in practice for themselves, they're probably employing several other people.
The upper-class, their main usefulness is as moneylenders, either directly or through investment.
Yes, I'm aware that the above is an oversimplification and that people can hold multiple roles within it at the same time. It's usually not difficult to tell which is any given individual's primary function is though, so it still works. It is, in any case, a hell of a lot more sensible than declaring classes based on numbers pulled out of someone's ass.
Your statement is also close to the truth. What's happening in America today is both the working-class and the upper-class are voting to steal from the middle-class.
The main problem today is nobody even knows what the middle-class is. It is not people who work a job that makes good money. Those are still working class. The middle class is small business owners. Period.
Without them a nation goes to shit and we've been fucking them from both ends with class warfare bullshit for decades.
I can see how you'd be confused but while the verb disbelieve leaves some wiggle room for passively not believing something, the noun disbelief does not.
Atheism is the lack of belief in gods. Nothing more. And you know it. Your willfully dishonest assignment of additional traits makes you guilty of precisely what you accuse your parent poster of.
You, sir, are a dumbass and in dire need of a dictionary.
atheism [ey-thee-iz-uhm] noun
1. the doctrine or belief that there is no God.
2. disbelief in the existence of a supreme being or beings
Atheism is an affirmative statement of belief in a position that has precisely as much empirical evidence supporting it as do the beliefs in the christian god, the islamic god, kali, or the flying spaghetti monster.
Oh like you lot wouldn't blow up the world to finally beat the French once and for all. You've only been killing each other for a couple thousand years off and on.
As an adult, go have a seat in a third grade classroom for thirteen years and do all the work. That's roughly what it's like going through a public school system as a prodigy. You almost never learn anything in class and the people you're forced to associate with are fucking idiots.
My power comes from a diesel generator in my back yard. It runs on my own formulation of bio-diesel though made entirely from the oil from the coats of freshly clubbed baby seals. I tried using the oil from hippies but they smelled worse than the dead baby seals.
Common mistake there, AC. That evolution happens is a fact, that it is the origin of man is a theory. An extremely well supported by the evidence theory but without direct observation of the origin of species, it's still a theory. It would take an FTL drive and a fucking amazing telescope to be able to empirically verify it and promote it into fact. Well, or negative axis time travel but that's even more problematic than an FTL drive.
Either I missed something in your statement or you're not one of the "the sky is falling and it's all our fault" types. To clarify, were you saying that an increase in solar radiation, massive deforestation, and added CO2, wouldn't make much difference but our current non-apocalyptic situation has? Nah, can't be. I must just be in a mood to argue.
Erm... Mars's atmosphere is 95.32% CO2 according to a quick wikipedia check. Which doesn't matter in the slightest really. All that matters for your point is that Mars is unaffected by Earth pollution but still has rising temperatures.
You are aware that gas prices are pretty high right now and we're having pretty shitty economic times on top of it? Yet people are still buying and driving SUVs.
Now I don't have a P.H.D. in economics but it seems to me that if you were to raise the gas taxes high enough to get any significant portion of the SUVs off the road right now, you would jack the prices on everything shipped by truck to a level just as uncomfortable. And inhibit consumer spending. And drive us most definitely into a double-dip recession.
Then again, all the unemployed people would lose their SUVs and have to go about their starving on foot, so I guess it would help even more. For a really fucktarded definition of 'help'.
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UHC isn't the right thing. It's the nice thing. There is a difference.
Guy's done what's required to warrant obscene amounts of care being provided to him. He's offered value in return for it in the form of cash and his sick smart brain.
I have, it says nothing even somewhat fitting our current situation.
That's not Capitalism. Capitalism is about equality of opportunity like Socialism and Communism are about equality of results. What we currently have is more along the lines of selling two flavors of lies about equality for an office and then selling that office for cash.
Class has nothing to do with how much money someone makes. It's all about their role in our economic system. The working-class hold jobs and the middle-class create jobs. If your example family heads are working for a hospital, they're just drawing a wage. If they're in practice for themselves, they're probably employing several other people. The upper-class, their main usefulness is as moneylenders, either directly or through investment. Yes, I'm aware that the above is an oversimplification and that people can hold multiple roles within it at the same time. It's usually not difficult to tell which is any given individual's primary function is though, so it still works. It is, in any case, a hell of a lot more sensible than declaring classes based on numbers pulled out of someone's ass.
Your statement is also close to the truth. What's happening in America today is both the working-class and the upper-class are voting to steal from the middle-class.
The main problem today is nobody even knows what the middle-class is. It is not people who work a job that makes good money. Those are still working class. The middle class is small business owners. Period.
Without them a nation goes to shit and we've been fucking them from both ends with class warfare bullshit for decades.
It's an Internet mob, remember? You should be selling them herbal V1agr4 instead.
More ethical? Software is not ethical, people are. And people tend to be assholes.
Fixed that for you.
I can see how you'd be confused but while the verb disbelieve leaves some wiggle room for passively not believing something, the noun disbelief does not.
You, sir, are a dumbass and in dire need of a dictionary.
atheism [ey-thee-iz-uhm] noun
1. the doctrine or belief that there is no God.
2. disbelief in the existence of a supreme being or beings
Atheism is an affirmative statement of belief in a position that has precisely as much empirical evidence supporting it as do the beliefs in the christian god, the islamic god, kali, or the flying spaghetti monster.
Oh like you lot wouldn't blow up the world to finally beat the French once and for all. You've only been killing each other for a couple thousand years off and on.
As an adult, go have a seat in a third grade classroom for thirteen years and do all the work. That's roughly what it's like going through a public school system as a prodigy. You almost never learn anything in class and the people you're forced to associate with are fucking idiots.
That would have been a fairly valid comment if you hadn't retarded it up by starting it with "This."
Yep, bloody stupid article by a bloody stupid journalist. No two ways about it.
No. Not with SkyNet in the name.
If you didn't, you obviously didn't use the chemicals noted in the abstract internally.
Actually, yes it does. Hypothesis + test = science.
Granted it's not as useful as finding out if wi-fi affects the masturbation habits of male dolphins but then what is?
What, they couldn't think of anything more psychotic?
My power comes from a diesel generator in my back yard. It runs on my own formulation of bio-diesel though made entirely from the oil from the coats of freshly clubbed baby seals. I tried using the oil from hippies but they smelled worse than the dead baby seals.
Not really, just correcting a false assumption. If I'd continued arguing the same point or the counterpoint it might have been relevant.
Fuck, who wouldn't? Me, I want to be hung by a nice, shoddy, dry rotted rope that's as close to certain to break as possible.
Common mistake there, AC. That evolution happens is a fact, that it is the origin of man is a theory. An extremely well supported by the evidence theory but without direct observation of the origin of species, it's still a theory. It would take an FTL drive and a fucking amazing telescope to be able to empirically verify it and promote it into fact. Well, or negative axis time travel but that's even more problematic than an FTL drive.
Either I missed something in your statement or you're not one of the "the sky is falling and it's all our fault" types. To clarify, were you saying that an increase in solar radiation, massive deforestation, and added CO2, wouldn't make much difference but our current non-apocalyptic situation has? Nah, can't be. I must just be in a mood to argue.
Erm... Mars's atmosphere is 95.32% CO2 according to a quick wikipedia check. Which doesn't matter in the slightest really. All that matters for your point is that Mars is unaffected by Earth pollution but still has rising temperatures.
You are aware that gas prices are pretty high right now and we're having pretty shitty economic times on top of it? Yet people are still buying and driving SUVs.
Now I don't have a P.H.D. in economics but it seems to me that if you were to raise the gas taxes high enough to get any significant portion of the SUVs off the road right now, you would jack the prices on everything shipped by truck to a level just as uncomfortable. And inhibit consumer spending. And drive us most definitely into a double-dip recession.
Then again, all the unemployed people would lose their SUVs and have to go about their starving on foot, so I guess it would help even more. For a really fucktarded definition of 'help'.