Jordan isn't exactly war-torn Muslim-fundie land. It's like that moon with the whorehouse on it in "Firefly": it could have developed a fair while ago if the local ruler didn't like to play King in His Castle and Ethnic Cleansing so much.
The really retarded thing is that they studied the effects of smoking versus not smoking in an organization where almost everyone smokes. I mean EVERYONE. It's what helps them cope with their rather unpleasant jobs and job conditions.
Not defending that it's right by me, or the general population, but they don't ooze rubbish about benevolence, and treating one's brother as you wish to be treated and all the rest. Hollywood is a corporation that's out to make money. That's what they claim to be.
Yeah, that's why films like "Avatar" and "Precious" were hailed as containing valuable moral, ethical and spiritual messages for the general public.
You're missing the application of this technology: car-trains and public transportation.
Think: you no longer need to wait for a bus when you want to go somewhere. You take out your cell-phone and tell the car-train network the number of people you need to be able to carry, and the network sends a self-driving car to the nearest parking space to your location. You get in and specify where you want it to go. The AI drives you there, using swarm-intelligence techniques for safety. You relax in comfort, and by some method have paid for this service. If you need to go somewhere special, you can bring the car to a location automatically and then drive manually from there.
You're really telling me that MIT and Harvard students had little knowledge of science?
Ref your signature, the bizarre coincidence of Nazi and Nazirite, English Bible spelling. I also remember, either in The Source by James Michener, or The Exodus by Leon Uris, that the new Israeli government needed an air force and found that what they could afford was a bunch of Messerschmitt 109s which were at the time very surplus and very cheap. They arrived with swastikas still painted on the stabilizers. In spite of several attempts to paint the swastikas out of existence, they continued to shine through after the new paint had dried and set. Might want to look this one up.
My signature refers to political comparisons, not logos on planes. There's a tendency nowadays to compare Israel and Zionists to the Nazis as part of a broad, semi-conscious effort to demonize Israel, Zionism, and Jews. Mike Godwin coined his own law as an antidote to the number of specious Nazi comparisons on Usenet, and I'm mutating it to point out the specious Nazi comparisons made about Israel.
When you claim that Israel engaged in a policy of robbing Arabs of their organs based on the Swiss article, that goes beyond criticism because it leaves the realm of fact. It enters the area of conspiracy theory and anti-Semitic blood-libel tropes.
One team at one hospital took corneas from any cadaver who came in. This was found out and revealed to the public more than 10 years before the Aftonbladet article. It was also stopped. The Aftonbladet article is a shoddy piece of National Enquirer-level journalism that only receives any serious treatment by people under the heavy influence of anti-Semitic memes.
Just admit that you've got no factual basis for your so-called criticism and move on to hating something real,like the occupation of the West Bank.
Well sure, but all that is true of the country as a whole as well. Urban areas of America are liberal and contain most of the population, but most of the land area (containing the national minority of rural-dwellers) votes conservative.
I'm sorry but Palestine is the Jewish homeland as much as Greece or Rome are the homeland of all of Europe including many Jews that live in it.
Why? What makes it not our country?
What I see is an ambiguous nation-religion colonizing a territory that is not theirs and happens to be home for another nation, just because its culture originated there a thousand years ago although they haven't been there for almost all that time.
Haven't been there? There have always been Jews in Israel. For most of recent history, however, oppression on Jews was so great that we never became a majority.
And Jewish culture originated in Israel 3000 years ago. If you want a culture in the Middle East that is about 1000 years old, look at Islam.
There is no such thing as an Akashic Jew, the term is nonsense. I think you meant "Ashkenazi", and the rest of world Jewry doesn't trail too far behind us in IQ terms (the interbreeding between different kinds of Jews taking place in modern times helps).
Also, the phenomenon of smarter people making a better living and therefore having more children has occurred quite widely throughout human history; it's the reason for the evolution of intelligence. The so-called "idiocracy" is a function of economics and ideological education in modern Western countries. On the one hand, deregulated capitalist economies take parents away from the home and make having children expensive to the middle-class and the rich (while the poor receive social-welfare payments for their kids) who tend to be more educated (and often smarter due to better nutrition). On the other hand, the green ideology that has become the religion of the atheistic and the educated classes looks at children as Earth-damaging CO2 fountains.
Meanwhile, the poor breed more because society supports their doing so with welfare benefits while they don't even feel obligated to spend as much on their kids as richer parents. The stupid breed more because they simply don't know how to have sex without impregnating the woman. The ignorant breed more because they never received indoctrination into Church-of-Euthanasia environmentalism. The religious breed more because we believe children are a gift from God.
So really it's not so much that intelligence will be bred out of the gene pool as workaholism, gullibility to indoctrination, and misanthropic views of human existence. These things just happen to be currently correlated with intelligence, education and wealth at the moment despite not causing them.
The vast majority of so-called "idiocracy" could be eliminated in a day if Western society decided to emphasize family life and parenthood more than career achievements and living out fad beliefs as lifestyle.
Well sure, but the problem is that the standard deviation in the IQ bell curve is defined to be about 15. Being 3 IQ points smarter than average means almost nothing.
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Jordan isn't exactly war-torn Muslim-fundie land. It's like that moon with the whorehouse on it in "Firefly": it could have developed a fair while ago if the local ruler didn't like to play King in His Castle and Ethnic Cleansing so much.
Where in the preview?
Or the government might think to allow soldiers some kind of stress-relief or recreational drug other than tobacco smoking.
Over there? Rather low, since the group of army-exempt citizens mainly consists of inbred religious fanatics.
The really retarded thing is that they studied the effects of smoking versus not smoking in an organization where almost everyone smokes. I mean EVERYONE. It's what helps them cope with their rather unpleasant jobs and job conditions.
Where the hell could they find a statistically-significant sample of non-smokers among IDF draftees?
Not defending that it's right by me, or the general population, but they don't ooze rubbish about benevolence, and treating one's brother as you wish to be treated and all the rest. Hollywood is a corporation that's out to make money. That's what they claim to be.
Yeah, that's why films like "Avatar" and "Precious" were hailed as containing valuable moral, ethical and spiritual messages for the general public.
It certainly appears from the previews that the Weeping Angels have become recurring villains of a sort.
You're missing the application of this technology: car-trains and public transportation.
Think: you no longer need to wait for a bus when you want to go somewhere. You take out your cell-phone and tell the car-train network the number of people you need to be able to carry, and the network sends a self-driving car to the nearest parking space to your location. You get in and specify where you want it to go. The AI drives you there, using swarm-intelligence techniques for safety. You relax in comfort, and by some method have paid for this service. If you need to go somewhere special, you can bring the car to a location automatically and then drive manually from there.
You're really telling me that MIT and Harvard students had little knowledge of science?
Ref your signature, the bizarre coincidence of Nazi and Nazirite, English Bible spelling. I also remember, either in The Source by James Michener, or The Exodus by Leon Uris, that the new Israeli government needed an air force and found that what they could afford was a bunch of Messerschmitt 109s which were at the time very surplus and very cheap. They arrived with swastikas still painted on the stabilizers. In spite of several attempts to paint the swastikas out of existence, they continued to shine through after the new paint had dried and set. Might want to look this one up.
My signature refers to political comparisons, not logos on planes. There's a tendency nowadays to compare Israel and Zionists to the Nazis as part of a broad, semi-conscious effort to demonize Israel, Zionism, and Jews. Mike Godwin coined his own law as an antidote to the number of specious Nazi comparisons on Usenet, and I'm mutating it to point out the specious Nazi comparisons made about Israel.
When you claim that Israel engaged in a policy of robbing Arabs of their organs based on the Swiss article, that goes beyond criticism because it leaves the realm of fact. It enters the area of conspiracy theory and anti-Semitic blood-libel tropes.
One team at one hospital took corneas from any cadaver who came in. This was found out and revealed to the public more than 10 years before the Aftonbladet article. It was also stopped. The Aftonbladet article is a shoddy piece of National Enquirer-level journalism that only receives any serious treatment by people under the heavy influence of anti-Semitic memes.
Just admit that you've got no factual basis for your so-called criticism and move on to hating something real,like the occupation of the West Bank.
I'm dearly sorry that I don't have mod points and that the people who do apparently can't see the forest for the anti-Semitic trees.
Where did you go to college in Massachusetts?
He's making an assumption you forgot: that the kids think for themselves, whatever the adults want to show them.
Squiggle-UCV?
Well sure, but all that is true of the country as a whole as well. Urban areas of America are liberal and contain most of the population, but most of the land area (containing the national minority of rural-dwellers) votes conservative.
Oy gevalt, you actually do have a choice to not buy advertised products and even not watch TV at all.
So you lot openly admit that the whole point of allowing illegal immigrants is to screw workers?
Do you really think immigrants want to live like that and feel OK with it?
That of protecting the Jewish faith, possibly preferentially, and possibly at the expense of people of other faiths.
Which means what, exactly? How does one protect the Jewish faith? Which sect of the Jewish faith? For whom? From whom?
This is all very vague.
I'm sorry but Palestine is the Jewish homeland as much as Greece or Rome are the homeland of all of Europe including many Jews that live in it.
Why? What makes it not our country?
What I see is an ambiguous nation-religion colonizing a territory that is not theirs and happens to be home for another nation, just because its culture originated there a thousand years ago although they haven't been there for almost all that time.
Haven't been there? There have always been Jews in Israel. For most of recent history, however, oppression on Jews was so great that we never became a majority.
And Jewish culture originated in Israel 3000 years ago. If you want a culture in the Middle East that is about 1000 years old, look at Islam.
Well the real question is, are they Jewish immigrants?
The overwhelming majority of immigrants to Israel are.
Does Mossad have a bias to the Jewish cause?
Which of several thousand causes championed by Jews are you labeling "the Jewish cause"?
Frankly also, if Mossad was involved then I'm of the opinion job well done.
And I'm of the opinion that if Mossad did this, they fucked up terribly by getting caught on tape and being identified.
I didn't understand that last bit, but OK.
Slight corrections for you...
There is no such thing as an Akashic Jew, the term is nonsense. I think you meant "Ashkenazi", and the rest of world Jewry doesn't trail too far behind us in IQ terms (the interbreeding between different kinds of Jews taking place in modern times helps).
Also, the phenomenon of smarter people making a better living and therefore having more children has occurred quite widely throughout human history; it's the reason for the evolution of intelligence. The so-called "idiocracy" is a function of economics and ideological education in modern Western countries. On the one hand, deregulated capitalist economies take parents away from the home and make having children expensive to the middle-class and the rich (while the poor receive social-welfare payments for their kids) who tend to be more educated (and often smarter due to better nutrition). On the other hand, the green ideology that has become the religion of the atheistic and the educated classes looks at children as Earth-damaging CO2 fountains.
Meanwhile, the poor breed more because society supports their doing so with welfare benefits while they don't even feel obligated to spend as much on their kids as richer parents. The stupid breed more because they simply don't know how to have sex without impregnating the woman. The ignorant breed more because they never received indoctrination into Church-of-Euthanasia environmentalism. The religious breed more because we believe children are a gift from God.
So really it's not so much that intelligence will be bred out of the gene pool as workaholism, gullibility to indoctrination, and misanthropic views of human existence. These things just happen to be currently correlated with intelligence, education and wealth at the moment despite not causing them.
The vast majority of so-called "idiocracy" could be eliminated in a day if Western society decided to emphasize family life and parenthood more than career achievements and living out fad beliefs as lifestyle.
Well sure, but the problem is that the standard deviation in the IQ bell curve is defined to be about 15. Being 3 IQ points smarter than average means almost nothing.