Lol, you talking about facts. Do you understand what the data you provided means? Abusing the math a little, (I assumed that branch growth was linear), the banks fired at least one teller. There were 6.5 tellers per branch in 1992 and in 2008 there were 5.2 tellers. Since that is one person per branch, 99,109 people don't have a job. Of course, these numbers don't distinguish between full and part-time. In the state of Ohio, Diebold employees 2,000 people. I wish I could have found a company total. Again abusing the math, (assuming that Ohio is the average and big states even out small states), that makes 100,000 employees. So it is about even in 2008. (The article I got it from was about Diebold layoffs. The 100,000 number is pre-layoff.) Temper that with the fact that in 1980, there were about 12 tellers per bank. Link You and your facts.
Depends on what you mean by bad. Colloidal silver is considered a "health drink" by some, however, imbibing too much or taking it too frequently causes your skin to turn a very noticeable grey. It is called argyria.
You are a creationist trying to appear reasonable, demonstrated by your ignorance about evolution. The hereditary nature of genetics is evolution. Wikipedia, our friend, has a great example of exactly what you are looking for, "documented proof of a reproducible experiment showing the evolution of a species into a new and unique species." The bacteria E. coli cannot metabolize citric acid. Except after 12 generations, this E. coli did.
Seconded. So awesome. I use my iPad off of my iPhone's 3G connection. I got the WiFi iPad and was never more aware of all the places that don't have WiFi. Plus, my iPad hates the my school's wireless VPN setup. It can take me up to 5 minutes to convince the tablet to talk to the VPN server. MyWi is a single tap and I'm online. Of course, AT&T's new persecution, I mean, new policy on jailbreak tethering has me on edge. No warning emails yet. Yet.
You missed the point. This is a "for the greater good" argument. Not a single person here has said that addiction or the violence would go away. There is no reason to treat marijuana, crack, or any of the other illegal drugs different from alcohol, caffeine, or tobacco. There is evidence that the Prohibition made the addiction and the violence associated with alcohol worse. Applying that to this modern prohibition would lead to the idea that it might be better to legalize illegal drugs rather than allow this status quo to continue. There will still be addiction and violence, but there will be less of it.
Your second point falls apart. Drugs are BAD, there is no denying that. Legalization would help shed some light in those dark corners.
I wish the pictures were large enough and crisp enough to read more easily. Just looking at it for a minute gave me a headache.
I'm not sure how the FBI expects anyone to help. The quality of the images are lousy. I went so far as to print one out and I can barely make anything out.
The first computer-program that actual can really play chess still has to be invented.
That is the AI fallacy right there. How else do you play chess, besides looking at previous games? Feeling? Intuition? All words for the pattern matching parts of your mind telling you it has seen this before.
What did your link have to do with what you said? The only thing that wikimedia said is that there isn't aren't genes for characteristics, but a pattern of genes that creates a characteristic. It may be scientifically incorrect to say gay gene, but it amounts to the same thing for a layperson. Your genes are arranged in a certain way to give you your eye color, hair color, and probably your sexual preferences. As for a citation, let's have a thought experiment. I want you to visualize the most attractive person you have ever seen, personally. Did your stomach swoop? Did your heart miss a beat? Did, at any point, you decide to have these reactions? Did you, at any time before that moment, decide that you were going to be attracted to a person that gender, with that look? No? If you had no choice in your sexual preferences, why would I? Can you even put yourself in my shoes and mean it? It is a choice, right? The next time you see a blond muscle head, can you will yourself to lose your train of thought and blush all over? Choose homo for a day. Let's see how it goes.
The only difference between you and GooberToo is that he is honest with himself. We are programmed to make these judgments. You are lying to yourself if you think you aren't doing it. You may still be overcoming these judgments, but they are there.
Exactly! I love this marketing hype about the new boogie man "social engineering." It is called a swindle or a con and has been around as long as humans have been able to lie.
It comes back to interpretations. Religions are inspired by gods, but is filtered through man. In that mindset, that we can never truly "know" the mind of god, doubt can be introduced. Was the prohibition on gays and women priests part of God's divine revelation or was it a prejudice of the period that wormed its way in? To put it another way, were these commands from God or were they a result of the corruption of men? If they were a result of corruption, they need to be excised. That the prohibitions were a corruption, is the stance that the homosexual community has taken. The Bible has been "re-translated" and "reedited" many times with many agendas involved. I don't know about the women priests supporters.
What exactly are you talking about? Algebra? Geometry? Biology? Why is Chemistry too much information? What are 'important subjects?' What is the criteria you are using to select them? How does too much learning become a bad thing?
I totally agree with the idea that if you don't like something about your job, you should find something better. That is what keeps benefits like a lunch break from going away completely. There are employers that are required by state law or by the unions to have a lunch break. To remain competitive with hiring, most employers will offer a lunch break, but only the amount required by law. Non-union employers located in states without mandatory lunch break laws still offer a break, because you still can go elsewhere. The invisible hand can be forced sometimes and benefits are a great example.
You are correct in your characterization that minimum wage workers are young and relatively few. Of all workers in the US, 58% worked for hourly rates, only 5% of those work for the minimum. You are wrong about some states not having a minimum wage. Minimum wage is a federal law and applies to all states.
Minimum wage is the floor other wages stand on. If it were taken away, wages would be completely controlled by the market, which may be a good thing for employers. What about those 5%? Their wages would undoubtedly fall, because the demand for unskilled labor will always be outstripped by the supply.
The web site you recommended may be good reading, but it is funded by what appears to be a Libertarian foundation. How can I trust it?
Liberty Fund, Inc. is a private, educational foundation established to encourage the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals.
By removing controls on the market designed to protect workers, I could easily become a slave. Only the law and what remains of the unions' power protects me. Why do I get vacation time? There is a law. Why do I get a lunch break? The unions require it. (Though, as the unions' power wanes, so does the length of my lunch "hour.") The humane aspects of our jobs were not put there by the free market, but by forces from outside it. Things as simple as lighting and fresh air are requirements imposed on industry. Minimum wage, which guarantees a livable wage, is a necessary imposition. How would eliminating minimum wage change employer motivations? Profit above all else. Do you think that if we eliminate minimum wage employers would cut wages and hire more people or would they just cut wages?
That approach would dissolve our society into feudalism. Slavery starts with a debt you can't pay back. If I pay a man quarter a day, but charge a dollar for the food he eats, he can never be free.
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Lol, you talking about facts. Do you understand what the data you provided means? Abusing the math a little, (I assumed that branch growth was linear), the banks fired at least one teller. There were 6.5 tellers per branch in 1992 and in 2008 there were 5.2 tellers. Since that is one person per branch, 99,109 people don't have a job. Of course, these numbers don't distinguish between full and part-time. In the state of Ohio, Diebold employees 2,000 people. I wish I could have found a company total. Again abusing the math, (assuming that Ohio is the average and big states even out small states), that makes 100,000 employees. So it is about even in 2008. (The article I got it from was about Diebold layoffs. The 100,000 number is pre-layoff.) Temper that with the fact that in 1980, there were about 12 tellers per bank. Link You and your facts.
Depends on what you mean by bad. Colloidal silver is considered a "health drink" by some, however, imbibing too much or taking it too frequently causes your skin to turn a very noticeable grey. It is called argyria.
You are a creationist trying to appear reasonable, demonstrated by your ignorance about evolution. The hereditary nature of genetics is evolution. Wikipedia, our friend, has a great example of exactly what you are looking for, "documented proof of a reproducible experiment showing the evolution of a species into a new and unique species." The bacteria E. coli cannot metabolize citric acid. Except after 12 generations, this E. coli did.
Seconded. So awesome. I use my iPad off of my iPhone's 3G connection. I got the WiFi iPad and was never more aware of all the places that don't have WiFi. Plus, my iPad hates the my school's wireless VPN setup. It can take me up to 5 minutes to convince the tablet to talk to the VPN server. MyWi is a single tap and I'm online. Of course, AT&T's new persecution, I mean, new policy on jailbreak tethering has me on edge. No warning emails yet. Yet.
Which version do you follow? What makes your version of the Bible the right version?
You missed the point. This is a "for the greater good" argument. Not a single person here has said that addiction or the violence would go away. There is no reason to treat marijuana, crack, or any of the other illegal drugs different from alcohol, caffeine, or tobacco. There is evidence that the Prohibition made the addiction and the violence associated with alcohol worse. Applying that to this modern prohibition would lead to the idea that it might be better to legalize illegal drugs rather than allow this status quo to continue. There will still be addiction and violence, but there will be less of it.
Your second point falls apart. Drugs are BAD, there is no denying that. Legalization would help shed some light in those dark corners.
I'm not sure how the FBI expects anyone to help. The quality of the images are lousy. I went so far as to print one out and I can barely make anything out.
Yes! Pocahontas has been a naughty girl!
That is the AI fallacy right there. How else do you play chess, besides looking at previous games? Feeling? Intuition? All words for the pattern matching parts of your mind telling you it has seen this before.
What did your link have to do with what you said? The only thing that wikimedia said is that there isn't aren't genes for characteristics, but a pattern of genes that creates a characteristic. It may be scientifically incorrect to say gay gene, but it amounts to the same thing for a layperson. Your genes are arranged in a certain way to give you your eye color, hair color, and probably your sexual preferences. As for a citation, let's have a thought experiment. I want you to visualize the most attractive person you have ever seen, personally. Did your stomach swoop? Did your heart miss a beat? Did, at any point, you decide to have these reactions? Did you, at any time before that moment, decide that you were going to be attracted to a person that gender, with that look? No? If you had no choice in your sexual preferences, why would I? Can you even put yourself in my shoes and mean it? It is a choice, right? The next time you see a blond muscle head, can you will yourself to lose your train of thought and blush all over? Choose homo for a day. Let's see how it goes.
It's called email, man. It is the next big thing!
The only difference between you and GooberToo is that he is honest with himself. We are programmed to make these judgments. You are lying to yourself if you think you aren't doing it. You may still be overcoming these judgments, but they are there.
Exactly! I love this marketing hype about the new boogie man "social engineering." It is called a swindle or a con and has been around as long as humans have been able to lie.
The computer has an on/off switch, why wouldn't a brain implant?
u look at it in large enough timescales, it is possible to pigs to eventually fly, with evolution and all.
Well, evolution and the horrible affront-to-God genetic experiments I'm doing in my basement. ;-P
I don't get it. How exactly is this disrespect? Everybody seems all fired up, but why?
It comes back to interpretations. Religions are inspired by gods, but is filtered through man. In that mindset, that we can never truly "know" the mind of god, doubt can be introduced. Was the prohibition on gays and women priests part of God's divine revelation or was it a prejudice of the period that wormed its way in? To put it another way, were these commands from God or were they a result of the corruption of men? If they were a result of corruption, they need to be excised. That the prohibitions were a corruption, is the stance that the homosexual community has taken. The Bible has been "re-translated" and "reedited" many times with many agendas involved. I don't know about the women priests supporters.
What exactly are you talking about? Algebra? Geometry? Biology? Why is Chemistry too much information? What are 'important subjects?' What is the criteria you are using to select them? How does too much learning become a bad thing?
What does this have to do with a "liberal" agenda? I'm upset about this because it isn't a liberal thing to do.
Sweetie, Hitler was a Christian. At least, he used Christian rhetoric on his way to gain power.
Like?
I totally agree with the idea that if you don't like something about your job, you should find something better. That is what keeps benefits like a lunch break from going away completely. There are employers that are required by state law or by the unions to have a lunch break. To remain competitive with hiring, most employers will offer a lunch break, but only the amount required by law. Non-union employers located in states without mandatory lunch break laws still offer a break, because you still can go elsewhere. The invisible hand can be forced sometimes and benefits are a great example.
You are correct in your characterization that minimum wage workers are young and relatively few. Of all workers in the US, 58% worked for hourly rates, only 5% of those work for the minimum. You are wrong about some states not having a minimum wage. Minimum wage is a federal law and applies to all states.
Minimum wage is the floor other wages stand on. If it were taken away, wages would be completely controlled by the market, which may be a good thing for employers. What about those 5%? Their wages would undoubtedly fall, because the demand for unskilled labor will always be outstripped by the supply.
The web site you recommended may be good reading, but it is funded by what appears to be a Libertarian foundation. How can I trust it?
By removing controls on the market designed to protect workers, I could easily become a slave. Only the law and what remains of the unions' power protects me. Why do I get vacation time? There is a law. Why do I get a lunch break? The unions require it. (Though, as the unions' power wanes, so does the length of my lunch "hour.") The humane aspects of our jobs were not put there by the free market, but by forces from outside it. Things as simple as lighting and fresh air are requirements imposed on industry. Minimum wage, which guarantees a livable wage, is a necessary imposition. How would eliminating minimum wage change employer motivations? Profit above all else. Do you think that if we eliminate minimum wage employers would cut wages and hire more people or would they just cut wages?
That approach would dissolve our society into feudalism. Slavery starts with a debt you can't pay back. If I pay a man quarter a day, but charge a dollar for the food he eats, he can never be free.