One factor in prospensity to cirrhosis seems to be how much coffee you drink ("at least two cups daily can translate to...an 80% drop in liver cirrhosis risk" - http://www.webmd.com/content/Article/80/96454.htm ). One instance where two "wrongs" do make a right?
There was no choice at the last election, you had the two major parties bidding up against each other on authoritarian platforms. Currently, the Tory part may have a thin veneer of Libertarianism, but it'd wash off the instant they got into power.
I couldn't disagree with you more. You are failing to see that these are not the wishes of a majority of "society" these are the machinations of a very powerful small corporate minority... Staying and fighting is all very well, but we are relatively powerless, we can no longer buy politicians/police etc. as we don't have enough money, they can; we don't have all the organs of state at our beck and call, they do... Neither is running away much use, there isn't a great diversity of governments anymore, not nearly so much divides the great US of A and US of E from the emerging US of Asia as you might imagine. I tried running, and six years after I fled, western corporatism is already catching up with me (WTO membership next month). Ah well, at least I had six good years whilst my compatriots sold out their democracy. That's the real answer, proper democracy, and that's been lost, possibly beyond redemption.
It's probably better to have a somewhat muddy system where people feel there is an element of chance to their station in life, as it makes for a more cohesive society. The problem with a meritocracy is that those on the top feel no humility and those on the bottom no self worth.
If you actually read the article you'd see that, in fact, lightning injuries are often quite minor because the high resistance of the skin conducts the flash over the body in what is known as a flashover. A mobile phone or other metal object prevents this happening and can lead to much more severe internal injuries.
The only difference between corruption in our western democracies and that of the developing nations which head the Standard and Poor's corruption league is how much it costs and therefore who can afford to buy!
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One factor in prospensity to cirrhosis seems to be how much coffee you drink ("at least two cups daily can translate to...an 80% drop in liver cirrhosis risk" - http://www.webmd.com/content/Article/80/96454.htm ). One instance where two "wrongs" do make a right?
There was no choice at the last election, you had the two major parties bidding up against each other on authoritarian platforms. Currently, the Tory part may have a thin veneer of Libertarianism, but it'd wash off the instant they got into power.
I couldn't disagree with you more. You are failing to see that these are not the wishes of a majority of "society" these are the machinations of a very powerful small corporate minority... Staying and fighting is all very well, but we are relatively powerless, we can no longer buy politicians/police etc. as we don't have enough money, they can; we don't have all the organs of state at our beck and call, they do... Neither is running away much use, there isn't a great diversity of governments anymore, not nearly so much divides the great US of A and US of E from the emerging US of Asia as you might imagine. I tried running, and six years after I fled, western corporatism is already catching up with me (WTO membership next month). Ah well, at least I had six good years whilst my compatriots sold out their democracy. That's the real answer, proper democracy, and that's been lost, possibly beyond redemption.
the fictional TV shows generally get as much wrong with their medicine as movies with tech themes get technology wrong
Correct for ten points. Try asking a lawyer about legal dramas, or a police officer about cops and robbers shows too.
And this is a good thing? A plumber only receives one payment for fixing your toilet, not every time you flush!
"negative credits" Those would be debits then? :-)
It's probably better to have a somewhat muddy system where people feel there is an element of chance to their station in life, as it makes for a more cohesive society. The problem with a meritocracy is that those on the top feel no humility and those on the bottom no self worth.
I should really learn to format too!
If you're going to be a G.N., get your own house in order first: > Secondly, its "paid", not payed. Just FYI. ;-)
It's "it's" not "its" :-)
If you actually read the article you'd see that, in fact, lightning injuries are often quite minor because the high resistance of the skin conducts the flash over the body in what is known as a flashover. A mobile phone or other metal object prevents this happening and can lead to much more severe internal injuries.
The only difference between corruption in our western democracies and that of the developing nations which head the Standard and Poor's corruption league is how much it costs and therefore who can afford to buy!
Probably true, but if there ever were a bunch of corporate scumbags who earnt the propaganda against them...
"it doesn't seem infeasible"
That's "it seems feasible" in plain text!