Nop. When overpopulation comes up, people will start thinking of solutions. Just like they do with any other problem that comes up. And there'll always be people who'd just choose not to procreate.
You don't seem to understand that the mindset simply comes from the situation.. even if all the people who believe we should breed less were to die out, the idea would still resurface soon enough if we grow big enough again, as a species, to make unsustainable resources an issue again.
Of course, opinions can be spread through the internet nowadays. Parenting is only part of the equation now, and for some kids it's getting smaller and smaller.
Now I'm scared. Not of the atheists... I'm scared of those christians: is that level of... "reduced intelligence", so to speak, infectuous? I hear it can be transferred verbally..
I'm sure it takes as much effort to import something relatively innocent, as it takes to import something quite vile. The innocent thing will often also be available locally though, making the import much less interesting. That might be an explanation why only the worst of Japanese porn gets to the west.
Anyway, as far as I know the Japanese simply do not have any real "legal age", and there's a whole lot of other laws about sex that the west has, but they don't. So, whatever's attractive and doesn't fight them off is fair game. That's why incest, pedophilia and the like aren't frowned upon that much. Frankly, as long as no real harm is done (permanent diseases, pregnancy, physical or psychological harm etcetera), I don't even see any problem with that. It's definitely more natural than the strict age limit that most western countries have.
"Plenty" might do. Water will keep on flowing as long as the sun keeps evaporating it into clouds, and those clouds end up raining on the top of mountains because they can't get over said mountains.
This source of power is self-replenishing until the freaking sun dies out or something ends up covering the lakes and seas from the sun's warmth. For a layman, that's close enough to "infinite". Trust me.
If it's running Linux, it'll need only one sysadmin. If it's running Windows, it'll need only one to change it but millions will chip in, clamouring for it to be changed faster. If it's running Mac OS X... well, you won't be able to change it without sending it in to a Mac store, but at least it'll be user-friendly! Ish..
I use double monitors all the time now, and if more games reliably handled this multimonitor setup I'd switch to triples right away. Double monitors are awesome when you want to put some tutorial or other reference to the side of your actual work, or keep one eye on a rendering or compiling task while also doing useful stuff in the meantime.
Finland is somewhat-kindof Scandinavian, and those folks tend to be rather welcoming and friendly. Other than that, I don't know.
All I can say is that, as far as smaller European countries go, you'd be disappointed by the Netherlands. We're slowly but steadily incorporating more and more of the bad things you mentioned about American law and government, courtesy of the conservatives. Though, on an interpersonal scale, I would agree that most Europeans I've met are less selfish and rude than the Americans you describe and that you tend to see on TV.
Just see the millions, thousands and ones as different units.. he just put the largest unit at the back, and the smallest one either at the front (European) or in the middle (American)
Sure, it makes no sense to anyone with a bit of a brain. The same thing goes for both date formats! I say we should all move to YYYY-MM-DD, the iso standard. Barring that, at least have the size units in proper order, DD/MM/YYYY. Either way, two-digit years are sooooo 99. Srsly.
I'm almost disappointed that he forgot to include child porn in his argument. After all, everyone knows the internet must be destroyed to prevent child porn!
I sincerely doubt that anything involving quantum computing would have been looked into if everyone bought into this false definition of skepticism. Or, heck, breaking the sound barrier? Taming/making fire? Science won't go anywhere without people like you and Quirkz. People with a healthy world-view, but also a sense of curiosity. Respect, man.
They can also make more copies than there are people in this world, for free. Which is why you, filling up an 1TB drive, isn't a problem as long as there are enough people doing so and they are paying a non-negligible price for it. You'd still need to take time to sort out the good games from the bad, anyway, and games get incompatible and relatively ugly as computers change/improve.
Your point is a good one, but I'm not quite sure it applies.
If I were you, I wouldn't even be so quick to suggest a real offense is needed... as long as there is a perceived one. A single person drawing a wrong conclusion can convince a whole village of someone's guilt. Or heck.. think of the attention-seekers, like girls who fake having been raped.
That's why you don't let groups of people decide, without presenting all evidence and all sides of the story in an orderly fashion. A single person is, maybe, a little less likely to make such mistakes. Still, most people are incapable of being properly unbiased, so groups of people who have been dealing with crime and such for a long time pick someone to make the judgment. A "judge" so to speak.
You know, I'm just going to cut a rant short here. Basically... courts suck, the law sucks, but it beats the simpler alternative. Maybe someday we'll find something that doesn't require people to waste years of their life learning how to twist the system in their favor (E.G.: lawyers). One can only hope, right?
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Nop. When overpopulation comes up, people will start thinking of solutions. Just like they do with any other problem that comes up. And there'll always be people who'd just choose not to procreate.
You don't seem to understand that the mindset simply comes from the situation.. even if all the people who believe we should breed less were to die out, the idea would still resurface soon enough if we grow big enough again, as a species, to make unsustainable resources an issue again.
Of course, opinions can be spread through the internet nowadays. Parenting is only part of the equation now, and for some kids it's getting smaller and smaller.
Now I'm scared.
Not of the atheists...
I'm scared of those christians: is that level of... "reduced intelligence", so to speak, infectuous? I hear it can be transferred verbally..
I'm sure it takes as much effort to import something relatively innocent, as it takes to import something quite vile. The innocent thing will often also be available locally though, making the import much less interesting. That might be an explanation why only the worst of Japanese porn gets to the west.
Anyway, as far as I know the Japanese simply do not have any real "legal age", and there's a whole lot of other laws about sex that the west has, but they don't. So, whatever's attractive and doesn't fight them off is fair game. That's why incest, pedophilia and the like aren't frowned upon that much. Frankly, as long as no real harm is done (permanent diseases, pregnancy, physical or psychological harm etcetera), I don't even see any problem with that. It's definitely more natural than the strict age limit that most western countries have.
"Plenty" might do. Water will keep on flowing as long as the sun keeps evaporating it into clouds, and those clouds end up raining on the top of mountains because they can't get over said mountains.
This source of power is self-replenishing until the freaking sun dies out or something ends up covering the lakes and seas from the sun's warmth. For a layman, that's close enough to "infinite". Trust me.
If it's running Linux, it'll need only one sysadmin.
If it's running Windows, it'll need only one to change it but millions will chip in, clamouring for it to be changed faster.
If it's running Mac OS X... well, you won't be able to change it without sending it in to a Mac store, but at least it'll be user-friendly! Ish..
I use double monitors all the time now, and if more games reliably handled this multimonitor setup I'd switch to triples right away.
Double monitors are awesome when you want to put some tutorial or other reference to the side of your actual work, or keep one eye on a rendering or compiling task while also doing useful stuff in the meantime.
Most people have -four- grandparents, if I'm not mistaken.
Unless you're the freaking Batman or an orphan or something, but yeah..
Finland is somewhat-kindof Scandinavian, and those folks tend to be rather welcoming and friendly. Other than that, I don't know.
All I can say is that, as far as smaller European countries go, you'd be disappointed by the Netherlands. We're slowly but steadily incorporating more and more of the bad things you mentioned about American law and government, courtesy of the conservatives.
Though, on an interpersonal scale, I would agree that most Europeans I've met are less selfish and rude than the Americans you describe and that you tend to see on TV.
Just see the millions, thousands and ones as different units.. he just put the largest unit at the back, and the smallest one either at the front (European) or in the middle (American)
Sure, it makes no sense to anyone with a bit of a brain. The same thing goes for both date formats! I say we should all move to YYYY-MM-DD, the iso standard. Barring that, at least have the size units in proper order, DD/MM/YYYY. Either way, two-digit years are sooooo 99. Srsly.
The plot to Braid, multiplied by Braid, with a little Braid thrown in.
I
CAN'T
WAIT!
He's probably talking about the tsunami or the earthquake, and not about the nuclear power plants.
BEST. ROADKILL. EVAR!!!
*goes back to playing Carmageddon*
.. This is NOT flamebait. Frankly, I think someone missed the -1: disagreed option.
So, what if we don't want to hear about some poor artiste's relationship problems?
Grave-burglarize? You don't think these ancient dead folks will come to life the minute someone disturbs them? Haven't you seen the movies?!
I'm almost disappointed that he forgot to include child porn in his argument. After all, everyone knows the internet must be destroyed to prevent child porn!
they can't take that away from you.
You sure about that?
Devil's advocate: more crimes are committed on the net than on the toilet. I'm pretty sure of it, anyway.
I sincerely doubt that anything involving quantum computing would have been looked into if everyone bought into this false definition of skepticism. Or, heck, breaking the sound barrier? Taming/making fire?
Science won't go anywhere without people like you and Quirkz. People with a healthy world-view, but also a sense of curiosity. Respect, man.
I never said "99.9999999%". I just said "most". That's already vague enough. But for your enjoyment, I'll fix it.
He did have a blueprint already, and most other planets that we know of don't have life.
Signed,
Atheist, playing the devil's advocate.
He did have a blueprint already, and most other planets don't have life.
Signed,
Atheist, playing the devil's advocate.
They can also make more copies than there are people in this world, for free. Which is why you, filling up an 1TB drive, isn't a problem as long as there are enough people doing so and they are paying a non-negligible price for it. You'd still need to take time to sort out the good games from the bad, anyway, and games get incompatible and relatively ugly as computers change/improve.
Your point is a good one, but I'm not quite sure it applies.
Well, War is one of the four riders of the apocalypse, you know? ... Ew. Demigod yaoi.
Apocalyptic demigod yaoi...
If I were you, I wouldn't even be so quick to suggest a real offense is needed... as long as there is a perceived one. A single person drawing a wrong conclusion can convince a whole village of someone's guilt. Or heck.. think of the attention-seekers, like girls who fake having been raped.
That's why you don't let groups of people decide, without presenting all evidence and all sides of the story in an orderly fashion.
A single person is, maybe, a little less likely to make such mistakes. Still, most people are incapable of being properly unbiased, so groups of people who have been dealing with crime and such for a long time pick someone to make the judgment. A "judge" so to speak.
You know, I'm just going to cut a rant short here. Basically... courts suck, the law sucks, but it beats the simpler alternative. Maybe someday we'll find something that doesn't require people to waste years of their life learning how to twist the system in their favor (E.G.: lawyers). One can only hope, right?