Corporations are amoral. They exist solely to make money by any legal means. If you want moral behaviour from a corporation, you'd best pass a law requiring it.
You'll be able to speak of others' intellectual *infancy* with less embarrassment once you've actually learnt the correct rules for punctuation (and capitalisation, too) that someone tried to teach you as a *child*.
When people no longer had to pick the cotton (making raw cotton less expensive), they could instead work making things with the cotton, a higher paying job.
Yep. It's pretty easy to imagine higher-paying jobs for slaves and/or sharecroppers.
You do not have to be a physicist or materials scientist to understand that, if you drop a glass from a 4th-story window, you'll very likely wind up with lots of glass shards scattered about on the sidewalk below.
My father--a retired physics teacher--confirms this.
A: Because he's heaps more knowledgeable about lots of things and has heaps better faculties of logic than your typical Slashdot AC troll who has no intellectual or any other sort of standing--AND manages to get out his mother's basement more often than the AC does, too, despite the fact Hawking's confined to a motorised wheelchair.
What do I win?
(My tickets for the winter holiday have already been purchased, but I can always use some extra spending money, so just send the cash. Thanks!)
If you're going to go all pedantic on me, let's talk about that little difference between history and prehistory of which you appear to be blissfully unaware.
After living overseas for 15+ years, I've found I can no longer eat American chocolate--it's about 3x as sweet as chocolate made anywhere else. It's like trying to drink a cup of coffee with about 6 spoons of sugar in it. Gross.
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Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.
What's the Islamic equivalent? Is there one?
(Yes, this is a completely serious question.)
Corporations are amoral. They exist solely to make money by any legal means. If you want moral behaviour from a corporation, you'd best pass a law requiring it.
Jimmy Carter killed 94 million people? That's a new one.
Good for you. I'm taking steps to ensure that it'll be my mind that's uploaded.
Logic fail: Pointing out one case in which there might be difficulties in implementing X does not mean that X is false, wrong, or unobtainable.
Legends speak of folks who've heaps more money than they can possibly ever spend...
You mean, "If no humans have any money...". You make the (unwarranted) assumption that the money must come as wages for work.
Man, you are just an endless supply of slogans that sound like they actually mean something, aren't you?
Intellectual infancy at it's finest.
You'll be able to speak of others' intellectual *infancy* with less embarrassment once you've actually learnt the correct rules for punctuation (and capitalisation, too) that someone tried to teach you as a *child*.
Not even applicable to the current discussion.
Most workers today work in services, which are proving harder to automate.
As Col Potter might say, "Bull COOKIES."
Does he really equate humanism with "worship of humans"? I'm disinclined to read the book after learning this about the author.
You can start by outgrowing the Protestant Work Ethic thing that is obviously colouring your judgement.
When people no longer had to pick the cotton (making raw cotton less expensive), they could instead work making things with the cotton, a higher paying job.
Yep. It's pretty easy to imagine higher-paying jobs for slaves and/or sharecroppers.
Would those be the Indians whose fertility rate is actually a bit *less* than the world average?
Just checking.
"No externalities". Typical of the unbridled-capitalism/free-trade mindset. Denial ain't just a river in Egypt, 'tis said...
Thanks for the link.
You do not have to be a physicist or materials scientist to understand that, if you drop a glass from a 4th-story window, you'll very likely wind up with lots of glass shards scattered about on the sidewalk below.
My father--a retired physics teacher--confirms this.
A: Because he's heaps more knowledgeable about lots of things and has heaps better faculties of logic than your typical Slashdot AC troll who has no intellectual or any other sort of standing--AND manages to get out his mother's basement more often than the AC does, too, despite the fact Hawking's confined to a motorised wheelchair.
What do I win?
(My tickets for the winter holiday have already been purchased, but I can always use some extra spending money, so just send the cash. Thanks!)
And I find you quite boring.
...the taste is almost chocolately in nature.
Good Vietnamese coffee beans, prepared in a French press immediately after grinding, taste like chocolate and vanilla.
Now I just need a way to get to Vietnam, or to get my friend to make another trip there.
If you're going to go all pedantic on me, let's talk about that little difference between history and prehistory of which you appear to be blissfully unaware.
After living overseas for 15+ years, I've found I can no longer eat American chocolate--it's about 3x as sweet as chocolate made anywhere else. It's like trying to drink a cup of coffee with about 6 spoons of sugar in it. Gross.
So, which is it--
You're saying that the Mayas and the Aztecs weren't human?
Or are you saying that the last 3,000 years or so does not count as a significant portion of human history?
I'm out of mod points at the moment, but you're in line for a +1, Insightful from me next time I have them.
Spot on, and well said.
Except that Hillary already conceded. In other words, she's already stated for the record that she accepts the outcome of the election.
Trump is the first and only candidate who ever spoke of not accepting the result.