Non-sequitur. The fact that the integrity is easy to verify does not change the fact that they cannot get a clean copy. Knowing your copy isn't clean does you no good if there are no clean copies.
Wouldn't take nearly that long. Modern humans have only existed for 10,000 generations, and were nearly wiped to extinction (to possibly as few as 1,000 breeding pairs) only 3,500 generations ago. Compare 20th century population growth to prior centuries. A roomful (say 10 breeding pairs) could reach 6 billion in less than a hundred generations easily, given sufficient available resources.
Pro-tip:
If you do not want people commenting on irrelevant information, don't provide.
That said, if she's unhappy with him, I'm available. *wink**wink*
Given all the evidence that it is NOT quicker, I would have to disagree.
Victims of decapitation are known to exhibit signs of consciousness responding to stimuli for over a minute. You don't think its any different when the spine is severed and the head is still attached do you?
You are the one being pedantic. While the GP's edits were unnecessarily (and I'm sure he'd quibble with my use of an adverb there, but I couldn't bear to cut it) drastic, his point was valid. The summary was poorly written.
I'm not nitpicking, you've missed my point entirely.
The absence of government regulation is NOT a free market. It is an unregulated market. A free market is a specific model which has specific assumptions. Among them are:
1) full transparency and information
-- All buyers and sellers are perfectly informed about the quality of goods and perfectly honest. 2) Full mobility
-- there are no artificial barriers to the movement of goods. Artificial barriers mean all sorts of things, governmental, social, or psychological.
There are several others, but these are the two biggies that are NEVER actually satisfied. The free market model is to economics what newtonian mechanics was to physics. A good model, ground breaking, and based on incorrect assumptions that severely limit its applicability.
People in the US, owing to their own willful ignorance which they blame on the piss-poor schools (I am speaking generally atm, not directed at you, since I do not know where you live or your educational background), do not know anything about what a free market is. When we say we have a free market system, what we mean is that we try to encourage our economic arrangements to match the model. This is rather silly, since it amounts to saying "Well we want newtonian physics to match what we observe, so we won't fly very fast or near very big objects."
The bottom line is that that is not how reality works. The free market model makes assumptions about human behavoir (honesty in the full transparency requirement, and the absence of anti-competitive behavoir in the full mobility requirement) that are just wrong. Hence, there is no such things as a real free market.
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Non-sequitur. The fact that the integrity is easy to verify does not change the fact that they cannot get a clean copy. Knowing your copy isn't clean does you no good if there are no clean copies.
That's lemurs to pygmy chimpanzees you insensitive clod!
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Cystic Fibrosis doesn't affect white men. It kills small children, usually before the age of 5.
I'd like to double down.
Wouldn't take nearly that long. Modern humans have only existed for 10,000 generations, and were nearly wiped to extinction (to possibly as few as 1,000 breeding pairs) only 3,500 generations ago. Compare 20th century population growth to prior centuries. A roomful (say 10 breeding pairs) could reach 6 billion in less than a hundred generations easily, given sufficient available resources.
Pro-tip: If you do not want people commenting on irrelevant information, don't provide. That said, if she's unhappy with him, I'm available. *wink**wink*
Given all the evidence that it is NOT quicker, I would have to disagree. Victims of decapitation are known to exhibit signs of consciousness responding to stimuli for over a minute. You don't think its any different when the spine is severed and the head is still attached do you?
Donner Lake Style is generally permissible.
What about the poor microbes swimming about? Best to stick to an air diet.
How is that mode of hanging any worse than any other? You don't think the dropping them to break the neck is actually humane do you?
That's a damn big baby.
A better question is can rational arguments be made with it? Also, he said he was from Texas. I must assume that he is a steer.
You are the one being pedantic. While the GP's edits were unnecessarily (and I'm sure he'd quibble with my use of an adverb there, but I couldn't bear to cut it) drastic, his point was valid. The summary was poorly written.
You kept reading them until burning crusade? I stopped reading them in April '05, and I only started playing in March '05.
Maddox is SOOOO 1999.
Just sayin'.
They sit at the bottom of the hill with 20 cars in the center lane by that gas station and pull every car over some afternoons.
Bastards got me.
You just described the road that runs off the Pajarito Plateau away from Los Alamos National Lab into Santa Fe County.
I hate Santa Fe Sherriffs.
It's an inverse square law actually, like most obvious things in the universe.
Don't feed the troll.
I'm not nitpicking, you've missed my point entirely.
The absence of government regulation is NOT a free market. It is an unregulated market. A free market is a specific model which has specific assumptions. Among them are:
1) full transparency and information
-- All buyers and sellers are perfectly informed about the quality of goods and perfectly honest.
2) Full mobility
-- there are no artificial barriers to the movement of goods. Artificial barriers mean all sorts of things, governmental, social, or psychological.
There are several others, but these are the two biggies that are NEVER actually satisfied. The free market model is to economics what newtonian mechanics was to physics. A good model, ground breaking, and based on incorrect assumptions that severely limit its applicability.
People in the US, owing to their own willful ignorance which they blame on the piss-poor schools (I am speaking generally atm, not directed at you, since I do not know where you live or your educational background), do not know anything about what a free market is. When we say we have a free market system, what we mean is that we try to encourage our economic arrangements to match the model. This is rather silly, since it amounts to saying "Well we want newtonian physics to match what we observe, so we won't fly very fast or near very big objects."
The bottom line is that that is not how reality works. The free market model makes assumptions about human behavoir (honesty in the full transparency requirement, and the absence of anti-competitive behavoir in the full mobility requirement) that are just wrong. Hence, there is no such things as a real free market.
Back in the day, the world was flat too.
I'mma stand on whichever grass I like, kay?
Don't forget that the cholesterol in those yolks at 2-4 a day is pretty damn unhealthy.
My kingdom for a mod point!
I prefer my tin-foil fedora. Or on warm days, my fez.