Humans quickly adapt. Due to the stereotype of the athletic but dumb kids beating up the smart but sickly kids, a lot of the latter now also take some form of martial arts.
I'm still waiting for what the former are going to do in response.
"Our bear makes other people more beautiful to you"
I'm having a hard time figuring out if you actually intended to say, "Our beer makes other people more beautiful to you" or, "Our bear makes other people more beautiful than you."
As somebody else above has said, plant extracts are not a concentrated source of anything. Which means you're probably better off comparing the effects of 120mg of freshly squeezed orange juice on scurvy than 100mg of vitamin C.
No doubt, you are correct. Very small dosages of certain vitamins and minerals can affect the body greatly. But very small dosages of naturally-occurring, unpurified, untreated, otherwise minimally processed things probably don't.
That and people can lie about certain effects of certain herbs (not maliciously necessarily, but ignorantly). Doesn't mean the herb doesn't affect the system somehow, only that it doesn't do that particular thing.
The difference is, one is telling other people to blow themselves up, the other is blowing himself up. Rich smart people don't usually blow themselves up. They let the dumber people do. The dynamics are a little different in a cell (the self-destruct bit sometimes gets lost in transmission), but this guy acted alone in the end.
In this situation, the wealthy background is merely a coincidence.
Like tighter airport security, it gets trod out every time some terrorism-related news comes up. It's an old fall back of the editors here on slow news days following a terrorist attack.
So you stop for a little longer at the light, make sure there's no oncoming traffic (or oncoming traffic is slowing down for a stop), and then go.
People blow past stop signs too, and for various reasons. Sure, it's wrong, and if anything happens, they're at fault. But you could be dead if you try to force them to yield to you. Do you really want to stake your life on somebody else's behavior?
we don't have 300 million unskilled laborers who will work their ass off for a few bucks a day.
That may be true, but I know there are 300 million such people on our doorstep begging to be allowed to do such work. In fact, they want to do this work so badly, they'll risk life and limb to be given the opportunity to work.
It's all about special interests here, and maintaining the status quo, i.e. social stagnation.
And they've been playing nice with the less developed countries, creating no animosity between them. Of course, the local people may suffer if the local government is bad (e.g. Iran), but if things really are that bad, the locals usually end up handling it without external interference. And if the wealth of the local government translates into the populace's wealth, however few, then there's no cause to be angry towards anybody doing business with the local government.
It's a much cleaner system than the pseudo-imperialism practiced in the west, where big companies just want to rape other nations for their natural resources, and lobby their respective governments to do so.
The key is to have the trains run constantly at 100-200MPH. In the US, trains run 60-80, but stop a lot either at stations mid-way, or to allow freight trains to pass (AMTRACK doesn't own most of the rails it runs on).
I used to take the train a lot between cities that are about 400 miles apart. On a good day, the train would take about 6 hours, about the same as driving (because the route is actually indirect despite not needing to transfer/switch trains) but without the headaches. On a bad day, I've had it take 12 hours, 4 of which was sitting there waiting 20 miles from the destination for freight trains to pass.
On the other hand, the plane took 2 hours, including the early check in time (the flight's only half an hour, and I didn't have to check in luggage), of which I only really spent 15 minutes at security and 30 minutes in flight.
I'd imagine things would be much faster if route of the tracks went directly between city centers, and if there hadn't been right-of-way concerns. And there are small stretches of track where this is true. But the current system as it exists in the US is largely designed to fail.
The difference is, everybody (with a few exceptions) knows this, acknowledges it, and is shamed for it. The US on the other hand, whitesashes it, and then takes the moral high ground as if its the only country in the world with an untainted history.
When I go see a movie that is billed as 'entertainment', I am not there to be preached to about particular message.
Might as well go and see Mall Cop or some other "mind-numbing" entertainment.
A movie is just another medium for storytelling. People typically like stories that have value. Some teach lessons, some show insight into the human condition, others are commentary on the human condition. Even "summer blockbusters" recognize that a movie can't subsist on fancy computer graphics and big explosions alone, and at least pay lip service to this idea.
You're welcome to stick to your slapstick comedies. But don't go watch a movie that tells a story, and then complain that there's actually a real storyline.
Bloggers have their place. They're not journalists in the traditional sense, but they're not useless either. Bloggers can spread disinformation if they are careless or malicious. But most often than not, they also have a reputation to uphold, and for those catered to a more educated crowd, they have to do just as much work as any traditional journalist to ensure their stories are accurate.
Bloggers differ from journalists in that their articles are always opinionated. They offer a biased view of the world, which makes them more attractive to the people who share the same biases. This is why they're so specialized. There's no blog for "everything" (not even a place like Fark) because there's a whole lot of everything and bloggers can't catch up. But the intense specialization is the value of blogs. Instead of having journalists who do journalism very well write about technology, law, foreign affairs, recipies, parenthood, etc., specialists in each respective field write about their field, and often for other like-minded people.
Ideally, blogs fit into the space between traditional journalism and trade journals. But traditional journalism is so desperate to jump on the blog bandwagon they've started to lose themselves.
George Lucas discovered CGI, but forgot script writing.
OT, but George Lucas is a different case. He never wrote a good script. His success was upon the backs of giants (Francis Ford Coppola, Stephen Spieldberg, Alec Guinness, Harrison Ford, etc.). When he became a giant, there was nobody else left to tell him what to do, and that's when things fell apart.
No, not everything is math. Entropy is something math cannot yet account for. Until mathematics can model physical systems perfectly, there'll be a huge gap between mathematics and reality. And that's what this comic strip is actually trying to say.
For that in a democracy, you need an educated populace, and in particular, a populace that values education. Good luck with that one. The entire culture is geared towards a dual party system. The prevailing mentality has been and short of something drastic happening, will remain, if you're not with us, you're against us.
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Yeah, you know those people like their Mickey D's and their fried chicken.
Humans quickly adapt. Due to the stereotype of the athletic but dumb kids beating up the smart but sickly kids, a lot of the latter now also take some form of martial arts.
I'm still waiting for what the former are going to do in response.
But it does let them jump away as fast as humans when they see a mouse.
Idiocracy.
Sounds like they're in need of engineers to design those experiments.
"Our bear makes other people more beautiful to you"
I'm having a hard time figuring out if you actually intended to say, "Our beer makes other people more beautiful to you" or, "Our bear makes other people more beautiful than you."
As somebody else above has said, plant extracts are not a concentrated source of anything. Which means you're probably better off comparing the effects of 120mg of freshly squeezed orange juice on scurvy than 100mg of vitamin C.
No doubt, you are correct. Very small dosages of certain vitamins and minerals can affect the body greatly. But very small dosages of naturally-occurring, unpurified, untreated, otherwise minimally processed things probably don't.
That and people can lie about certain effects of certain herbs (not maliciously necessarily, but ignorantly). Doesn't mean the herb doesn't affect the system somehow, only that it doesn't do that particular thing.
Yes but was it ORGANIC Kinkgo?
No, but it came with a FedEx.
The difference is, one is telling other people to blow themselves up, the other is blowing himself up. Rich smart people don't usually blow themselves up. They let the dumber people do. The dynamics are a little different in a cell (the self-destruct bit sometimes gets lost in transmission), but this guy acted alone in the end.
In this situation, the wealthy background is merely a coincidence.
That and you don't get the viewing distance with a traffic light significantly angled down.
Like tighter airport security, it gets trod out every time some terrorism-related news comes up. It's an old fall back of the editors here on slow news days following a terrorist attack.
I can just see them going to the afterlife and finding that their 72 virgins are actually each other.
So you stop for a little longer at the light, make sure there's no oncoming traffic (or oncoming traffic is slowing down for a stop), and then go.
People blow past stop signs too, and for various reasons. Sure, it's wrong, and if anything happens, they're at fault. But you could be dead if you try to force them to yield to you. Do you really want to stake your life on somebody else's behavior?
we don't have 300 million unskilled laborers who will work their ass off for a few bucks a day.
That may be true, but I know there are 300 million such people on our doorstep begging to be allowed to do such work. In fact, they want to do this work so badly, they'll risk life and limb to be given the opportunity to work.
It's all about special interests here, and maintaining the status quo, i.e. social stagnation.
And they've been playing nice with the less developed countries, creating no animosity between them. Of course, the local people may suffer if the local government is bad (e.g. Iran), but if things really are that bad, the locals usually end up handling it without external interference. And if the wealth of the local government translates into the populace's wealth, however few, then there's no cause to be angry towards anybody doing business with the local government.
It's a much cleaner system than the pseudo-imperialism practiced in the west, where big companies just want to rape other nations for their natural resources, and lobby their respective governments to do so.
The key is to have the trains run constantly at 100-200MPH. In the US, trains run 60-80, but stop a lot either at stations mid-way, or to allow freight trains to pass (AMTRACK doesn't own most of the rails it runs on).
I used to take the train a lot between cities that are about 400 miles apart. On a good day, the train would take about 6 hours, about the same as driving (because the route is actually indirect despite not needing to transfer/switch trains) but without the headaches. On a bad day, I've had it take 12 hours, 4 of which was sitting there waiting 20 miles from the destination for freight trains to pass.
On the other hand, the plane took 2 hours, including the early check in time (the flight's only half an hour, and I didn't have to check in luggage), of which I only really spent 15 minutes at security and 30 minutes in flight.
I'd imagine things would be much faster if route of the tracks went directly between city centers, and if there hadn't been right-of-way concerns. And there are small stretches of track where this is true. But the current system as it exists in the US is largely designed to fail.
The difference is, everybody (with a few exceptions) knows this, acknowledges it, and is shamed for it. The US on the other hand, whitesashes it, and then takes the moral high ground as if its the only country in the world with an untainted history.
And yet, despite that, there still isn't enough capacity.
When I go see a movie that is billed as 'entertainment', I am not there to be preached to about particular message.
Might as well go and see Mall Cop or some other "mind-numbing" entertainment.
A movie is just another medium for storytelling. People typically like stories that have value. Some teach lessons, some show insight into the human condition, others are commentary on the human condition. Even "summer blockbusters" recognize that a movie can't subsist on fancy computer graphics and big explosions alone, and at least pay lip service to this idea.
You're welcome to stick to your slapstick comedies. But don't go watch a movie that tells a story, and then complain that there's actually a real storyline.
Bloggers have their place. They're not journalists in the traditional sense, but they're not useless either. Bloggers can spread disinformation if they are careless or malicious. But most often than not, they also have a reputation to uphold, and for those catered to a more educated crowd, they have to do just as much work as any traditional journalist to ensure their stories are accurate.
Bloggers differ from journalists in that their articles are always opinionated. They offer a biased view of the world, which makes them more attractive to the people who share the same biases. This is why they're so specialized. There's no blog for "everything" (not even a place like Fark) because there's a whole lot of everything and bloggers can't catch up. But the intense specialization is the value of blogs. Instead of having journalists who do journalism very well write about technology, law, foreign affairs, recipies, parenthood, etc., specialists in each respective field write about their field, and often for other like-minded people.
Ideally, blogs fit into the space between traditional journalism and trade journals. But traditional journalism is so desperate to jump on the blog bandwagon they've started to lose themselves.
George Lucas discovered CGI, but forgot script writing.
OT, but George Lucas is a different case. He never wrote a good script. His success was upon the backs of giants (Francis Ford Coppola, Stephen Spieldberg, Alec Guinness, Harrison Ford, etc.). When he became a giant, there was nobody else left to tell him what to do, and that's when things fell apart.
No, not everything is math. Entropy is something math cannot yet account for. Until mathematics can model physical systems perfectly, there'll be a huge gap between mathematics and reality. And that's what this comic strip is actually trying to say.
Yeah, the list itself is lame. That makes it 88 things.
For that in a democracy, you need an educated populace, and in particular, a populace that values education. Good luck with that one. The entire culture is geared towards a dual party system. The prevailing mentality has been and short of something drastic happening, will remain, if you're not with us, you're against us.