To be super nerd boy, I would point out that it is only 10 years before TOS, which clearly places it after the timeline being disrupted in the movies. (though before the movies main plots (if you can cal them that)) Maybe the events that led to Sybok were altered and Michael happened instead.
And bite me about the SJW stuff. If I have to sit through The Notebook and Twilight, you can stand a little affection between 2 dudes from time to time.
What? I live in PA, where it is perfectly acceptable to fire me for my orientation. I could bring a discrimination lawsuit, but it would be dismissed because I have no grounds. I'd be out a job and the money spent on the lawyer.
I'll give you the randomness of being beaten up (though I want to believe that gay white men are beat up more often then straight ones but I'm too lazy to do the research to back my belief up right now), but not the gay panic defense. Frankly, your response to it made no sense. I would prefer if my attacker received a fair trial and is punished for his crimes, not let off with a slap on the wrist. This does not equate to "Black people were enslaved by white guys, so let's kill all white guys!" More like if someone is found enslaving other people, they should be punished for it with appropriate jail time? Like Ariel Castro? I don't want to be controversial here.
As to the religion question, you are not surrounded by Muslims or Hindus as I am surrounded by "Christians." I think your perspective on what being considered a condemned sinner would be quite different if you were. Of course, I doubt you have the imagination to understand what that would be like, given your previous response. I also doubt you have any commitment to being a good person, but that is just a hunch. I won't even bother with the last point, as that one is a little more complicated and you have already dismissed the simpler issues with a brutal lack of humanity.
Wow, that is such a basic fallacy. Just because a white guy is homeless doesn't mean he lacks privilege. Being privileged isn't a linear or binary state. Your white homeless guy lacks the privileges of food, shelter, and employment. That doesn't mean that he doesn't have the privileges of having gone to a good school (which he probably did because, statistically, white schools are better funded). Clean him up, set him up with a permanent address, and address whatever issue has made him homeless, and he'll have an easier time of finding a job than a black person in similar circumstance would. Once he saves up enough money, he can get a loan for a car easier than a black person could. When he drives that car down the street, he doesn't have to worry about the police as much as a black person. White people get pulled over less than black people do. That sounds like a privilege...
Just because you can find an example of any type of person in a bad situation doesn't mean that that makes us all equal. If you must, imagine that privilege is like a video game's tech tree. If you choose the white straight male player, there are more options and almost all of them cost less points than the black player's options. This bonus for the white male player gives advantage against every other type of player too: Asian, Mexican, female, gay, lesbian, trans, handicapped, and so on. For instance, I'm a gay white male, which means my tech tree lines up rather nicely with the straight white male, except for some hits in the social advantages. I'm more likely to get fired than the straight white male. I also have a lovely hate crime mechanic, where I can, at anytime, be beaten to death, in public, for being "a f@gg*t." Until recently, my straight male attacker could say that I made a pass at him and the game will accept that as a valid exception to the "No killing" rule. (The gay panic defense! It's a thing and is still being used!) The religion and family branches also need more points (gays cause hurricanes, hate the sin love the sinner). I'm also more likely to have a crippling addiction and die younger than comparable straight white males. We're currently petitioning the game programmers for adjustments. So if you see a white homeless man, realize that you can find unlucky or bad players, no matter the player type, but that doesn't change the tech tree.
Seriously? You question my service? Classy. Then you question the definition of communal shower, like there is any way that is up for grabs. It is a room with shower heads scattered around and no curtains. Are you such a special snowflake that having shower stalls together is "communal showering?" Right.
I always find it odd when vets bring up the shower argument. After boot camp, when were you ever subjected to group showers? I was a Marine '02-'07. I was stationed a couple places and I was deployed to Iraq. After boot camp, I never had to deal with communal showers. Occasionally, there was no water for showers, but never a time where everybody had to shower together. In Iraq, on a tiny FOB in the middle of nowhere, my unit cobbled a shower together with a pallet, a tarp, and one of those camp shower bags. We did not shower together. My experience is just mine, but if the Marines had individual showers 10 years ago, surely the rest of the services do now. (I would actually expect the oppisite, with the Marines getting things after every other service does.)
Yes, yes it is. From a scientific perspective, it offers ultimate control. The average serviceperson's (less than E-5 in my experience anyway) life is so regimented that you could run experiments as dumb as "does starting brushing ones teeth on the left side improve hygiene?" completely possible. You could view seperate units as premade control and test groupings. The setup is practically begging for it.
Of course, you mean "forcing" people to interact with people that they find strange as a social experiment, which is weird because that is the basis of a civil society.
But without regulation, you have the rise of monsters. So rather than striving for a free market utopia, we need to find ways to keep corporate money out of politics. How does we successfully fight corruption?
Weird how all the big companies seem to believe the future lies with us continuously paying them for the privilege of their services without them actually suppling a permanent product.
I'm not sure about the legality but, in an accident, the person who turns left into oncoming traffic is always at fault. I did it once. To this day I have no idea what I was thinking, until I was across the lane looking through my passenger door window at an oncoming car going to fast to stop. (I was then thinking "SHIT!") I got a nice big ticket on top of my repair bill and increased insurance rates.
Same reason there are a 100 Call of Duty game sequels. Low risk. These projects involve millions of dollars. The people in charge could risk that money on a really promising story from a nobody. The risk could be worth it and everyone involved makes enough money to build their own Scrooge McDuck money vaults. The project could possibly fail and that failure would blow back not just on the decision makers, but on the entire company. We all know of gaming companies and movie studios who went bankrupt from just one really bad movie/game. A sequel, on the other hand, might not make mind-boggling amounts of money, but it will make a predictable amount of money. Low risk and everyone gets paid.
You're focusing on the wrong bit of their comment. If you were to discover how to do something thought to be impossible, how would you obtain a patent for it? That is the point of their comment. Constructing something impossible is totally possible. Dark matter and dark energy point to an overlooked something. That could be a rounding error somewhere or that could be a result of naturally occurring anti-gravity. It is literally a known unknown. Who knows where that hole is? Of course, it is hugely improbable that that unknown affects us in a way that could be exploited, but we....don't...know. And that is just a well known unknown. What about unknown unknowns? This is what makes science so amazing. Science's best answer is "probably," never "definitely."
I can't find anything about the Arctic, but the Antarctic ice pack has been around since the Eocene, which means it has been around for most of the Cenozoic.
How long is your timeline? The weather service says that most of California is in "exceptional" drought conditions. Looking at the legend with a little gallows humor, it looks like they might have added "exceptional" to the scale because "extreme" was no longer a sufficient descriptor. I would hope their timeline is at least a couple of hundred years. So why would you say wet?
Isn't that the point of the mage vs. warrior divide? Brawn vs Intellect? Mages sacrifice heavy armor to deal higher damage, but can get murdered by the slightest sneeze. Warriors sacrifice speed for heavy armor and large pointy things.
Part of the conservative narrative here in the U.S. is that ultimately any contraception is akin to abortion. The so-called "Plan B" or "abortion pill" functions by inhibiting ovulation. That means that there isn't an egg to be fertilized. However, since it is taken after a woman has sex, the talking heads can creatively use their ignorance to portray Plan B has an abortifacient. The narrative was always about getting rid of contraceptives, but no sane person is going to be on board with that kind of ban. So they got creative. Baby killing hits people hard, so they try to associate baby killing with more types of contraceptives.
Such a system is impossible. There are reasons sayings like "What can go wrong, will go wrong,"
and "When man makes something idiot proof, nature makes a better idiot" exist. Utopia ignores everything we know about the universe.
The cost of entry into any industry can be controlled. It can be controlled by the industry or the government. Who has a greater interest in competition?
All industry tends to monopoly. It is the lowest energy state of business. If you do not have to compete with another provider/producer, you are free to crank the profit/decency ratio all the way over to profit. So, left alone, all industry would gravitate from freedom to monopoly, ending in pseudo-feudalism and slavery.
Dismissing examples because they lack "freedom" is essentially a no true Scotsman argument. Everyone, everywhere is perfectly "free." It is just some are free to choose pain, death, or pain followed by death.
Thank you! I felt alone. Every time I try to explain to someone that there is a such thing as too much efficiency, I get the "How did he escape the loony-bin ?" look.
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To be super nerd boy, I would point out that it is only 10 years before TOS, which clearly places it after the timeline being disrupted in the movies. (though before the movies main plots (if you can cal them that)) Maybe the events that led to Sybok were altered and Michael happened instead.
And bite me about the SJW stuff. If I have to sit through The Notebook and Twilight, you can stand a little affection between 2 dudes from time to time.
And instead, our productivity went up. We had more time to do more work. It is not a great trade.
What? I live in PA, where it is perfectly acceptable to fire me for my orientation. I could bring a discrimination lawsuit, but it would be dismissed because I have no grounds. I'd be out a job and the money spent on the lawyer.
I'll give you the randomness of being beaten up (though I want to believe that gay white men are beat up more often then straight ones but I'm too lazy to do the research to back my belief up right now), but not the gay panic defense. Frankly, your response to it made no sense. I would prefer if my attacker received a fair trial and is punished for his crimes, not let off with a slap on the wrist. This does not equate to "Black people were enslaved by white guys, so let's kill all white guys!" More like if someone is found enslaving other people, they should be punished for it with appropriate jail time? Like Ariel Castro? I don't want to be controversial here.
As to the religion question, you are not surrounded by Muslims or Hindus as I am surrounded by "Christians." I think your perspective on what being considered a condemned sinner would be quite different if you were. Of course, I doubt you have the imagination to understand what that would be like, given your previous response. I also doubt you have any commitment to being a good person, but that is just a hunch. I won't even bother with the last point, as that one is a little more complicated and you have already dismissed the simpler issues with a brutal lack of humanity.
So dismiss me rather than consider my words? Okay. I'm still curious. How is it toxic?
Wow, that is such a basic fallacy. Just because a white guy is homeless doesn't mean he lacks privilege. Being privileged isn't a linear or binary state. Your white homeless guy lacks the privileges of food, shelter, and employment. That doesn't mean that he doesn't have the privileges of having gone to a good school (which he probably did because, statistically, white schools are better funded). Clean him up, set him up with a permanent address, and address whatever issue has made him homeless, and he'll have an easier time of finding a job than a black person in similar circumstance would. Once he saves up enough money, he can get a loan for a car easier than a black person could. When he drives that car down the street, he doesn't have to worry about the police as much as a black person. White people get pulled over less than black people do. That sounds like a privilege...
Just because you can find an example of any type of person in a bad situation doesn't mean that that makes us all equal. If you must, imagine that privilege is like a video game's tech tree. If you choose the white straight male player, there are more options and almost all of them cost less points than the black player's options. This bonus for the white male player gives advantage against every other type of player too: Asian, Mexican, female, gay, lesbian, trans, handicapped, and so on. For instance, I'm a gay white male, which means my tech tree lines up rather nicely with the straight white male, except for some hits in the social advantages. I'm more likely to get fired than the straight white male. I also have a lovely hate crime mechanic, where I can, at anytime, be beaten to death, in public, for being "a f@gg*t." Until recently, my straight male attacker could say that I made a pass at him and the game will accept that as a valid exception to the "No killing" rule. (The gay panic defense! It's a thing and is still being used!) The religion and family branches also need more points (gays cause hurricanes, hate the sin love the sinner). I'm also more likely to have a crippling addiction and die younger than comparable straight white males. We're currently petitioning the game programmers for adjustments. So if you see a white homeless man, realize that you can find unlucky or bad players, no matter the player type, but that doesn't change the tech tree.
He just meant that the low hanging apples have been picked. You, of course, are talking about designing ladders.
Seriously? You question my service? Classy. Then you question the definition of communal shower, like there is any way that is up for grabs. It is a room with shower heads scattered around and no curtains. Are you such a special snowflake that having shower stalls together is "communal showering?" Right.
I always find it odd when vets bring up the shower argument. After boot camp, when were you ever subjected to group showers? I was a Marine '02-'07. I was stationed a couple places and I was deployed to Iraq. After boot camp, I never had to deal with communal showers. Occasionally, there was no water for showers, but never a time where everybody had to shower together. In Iraq, on a tiny FOB in the middle of nowhere, my unit cobbled a shower together with a pallet, a tarp, and one of those camp shower bags. We did not shower together. My experience is just mine, but if the Marines had individual showers 10 years ago, surely the rest of the services do now. (I would actually expect the oppisite, with the Marines getting things after every other service does.)
Yes, yes it is. From a scientific perspective, it offers ultimate control. The average serviceperson's (less than E-5 in my experience anyway) life is so regimented that you could run experiments as dumb as "does starting brushing ones teeth on the left side improve hygiene?" completely possible. You could view seperate units as premade control and test groupings. The setup is practically begging for it.
Of course, you mean "forcing" people to interact with people that they find strange as a social experiment, which is weird because that is the basis of a civil society.
What is the purpose of government at all? Is it simply to create stable markets?
But without regulation, you have the rise of monsters. So rather than striving for a free market utopia, we need to find ways to keep corporate money out of politics. How does we successfully fight corruption?
The calculator just told me that I'll see a savings of $100 over 30 years. I think I'm going to wait for fusion to become a thing.
Weird how all the big companies seem to believe the future lies with us continuously paying them for the privilege of their services without them actually suppling a permanent product.
I'm not sure about the legality but, in an accident, the person who turns left into oncoming traffic is always at fault. I did it once. To this day I have no idea what I was thinking, until I was across the lane looking through my passenger door window at an oncoming car going to fast to stop. (I was then thinking "SHIT!") I got a nice big ticket on top of my repair bill and increased insurance rates.
Same reason there are a 100 Call of Duty game sequels. Low risk. These projects involve millions of dollars. The people in charge could risk that money on a really promising story from a nobody. The risk could be worth it and everyone involved makes enough money to build their own Scrooge McDuck money vaults. The project could possibly fail and that failure would blow back not just on the decision makers, but on the entire company. We all know of gaming companies and movie studios who went bankrupt from just one really bad movie/game. A sequel, on the other hand, might not make mind-boggling amounts of money, but it will make a predictable amount of money. Low risk and everyone gets paid.
You're focusing on the wrong bit of their comment. If you were to discover how to do something thought to be impossible, how would you obtain a patent for it? That is the point of their comment. Constructing something impossible is totally possible. Dark matter and dark energy point to an overlooked something. That could be a rounding error somewhere or that could be a result of naturally occurring anti-gravity. It is literally a known unknown. Who knows where that hole is? Of course, it is hugely improbable that that unknown affects us in a way that could be exploited, but we....don't...know. And that is just a well known unknown. What about unknown unknowns? This is what makes science so amazing. Science's best answer is "probably," never "definitely."
I can't find anything about the Arctic, but the Antarctic ice pack has been around since the Eocene, which means it has been around for most of the Cenozoic.
How long is your timeline? The weather service says that most of California is in "exceptional" drought conditions. Looking at the legend with a little gallows humor, it looks like they might have added "exceptional" to the scale because "extreme" was no longer a sufficient descriptor. I would hope their timeline is at least a couple of hundred years. So why would you say wet?
Isn't that the point of the mage vs. warrior divide? Brawn vs Intellect? Mages sacrifice heavy armor to deal higher damage, but can get murdered by the slightest sneeze. Warriors sacrifice speed for heavy armor and large pointy things.
Part of the conservative narrative here in the U.S. is that ultimately any contraception is akin to abortion. The so-called "Plan B" or "abortion pill" functions by inhibiting ovulation. That means that there isn't an egg to be fertilized. However, since it is taken after a woman has sex, the talking heads can creatively use their ignorance to portray Plan B has an abortifacient. The narrative was always about getting rid of contraceptives, but no sane person is going to be on board with that kind of ban. So they got creative. Baby killing hits people hard, so they try to associate baby killing with more types of contraceptives.
Such a system is impossible. There are reasons sayings like "What can go wrong, will go wrong,"
and "When man makes something idiot proof, nature makes a better idiot" exist. Utopia ignores everything we know about the universe.
The cost of entry into any industry can be controlled. It can be controlled by the industry or the government. Who has a greater interest in competition?
All industry tends to monopoly. It is the lowest energy state of business. If you do not have to compete with another provider/producer, you are free to crank the profit/decency ratio all the way over to profit. So, left alone, all industry would gravitate from freedom to monopoly, ending in pseudo-feudalism and slavery.
Dismissing examples because they lack "freedom" is essentially a no true Scotsman argument. Everyone, everywhere is perfectly "free." It is just some are free to choose pain, death, or pain followed by death.
Thank you! I felt alone. Every time I try to explain to someone that there is a such thing as too much efficiency, I get the "How did he escape the loony-bin ?" look.
Umm, why would there be global warming in 1000? The Industrial Revolution was barely 200 years ago.