The reason you're not totally impressed and surprised by things like shrink rays and strippers? Ya its because you're not 13 anymore. Been there done that. Welcome to adulthood its boring as hell.
All new innovation is based on someone's old innovation. Ever hear of Alfred Russel Wallace? -- probably not, but you've probably heard of most of his work through the guy who pretty much ripped HIM off (yet in the process made it more concise and with more applied observation!)
Google, sleazy? Or Google, business... It's not like source code and design documents aren't "borrowed" constantly anyway... Perhaps off topic but to address your comment on Darwin, my understanding is that Darwin developed his theory of evolution through natural selection well before Alfred Russel Wallace. He then shelved it for a time and returned to it when Wallace was prepping his work. Only important because you were implying that Darwin somehow read and copied Wallace's work and then presented Wallace's ideas as his own. If you have anything to show that Darwin did in fact plagiarize I would be interested in reading it.
Not really clear on how taking up arms to end the occupation in Iraq is a solution...Are you saying the political left should start assassinating politicians to get what they want? That honestly doesn't make any sense.
I agree that violence is sometimes the only solution. But all the situations you pointed to, which needed to be solved by violence, had absolutely nothing to do with 2nd amendment gun ownership.
Absolutely true. Since when does having an education or using your brain to think through a problem somehow make you bad? It's a strange Ad Hominem attack. Having a college education or reading books that require a higher than 8th grade vocabulary doesn't say anything about the character of the individual. People that fall into the "I think I'm better than you" category fall EVERYWHERE across the political spectrum. But this "elitist" attack is applied primarily to people that fall left of center, particularly those who have a higher level of education than the national average.
I guess my question is then, "why?" What led to this particular situation? Who started it, who was the original pariah, and why is it applied more often in one direction than another? Any ideas?
Posting from cell. Please be kind. Culture history isn't something we should forget. Disregarding the fact that if you drop a group of people from modern civ into that situation they probably wouldn't last a month, their cultural history would likely develop them into something different. I agree you can't look at these people and say this is humanity 10kya. Instead this gives us another example of the breadth of human cultural variation in a given environment. Alone we don't have much but combined with other examples we may be able to make detailed inferences about the past. Sorry if that was disjointed. Typing this took forever.
I think what he is getting at isn't the details of the culture, like their music or language. Those things change significantly through time so you wouldn't expect them to be the same. Rather he is referring to everyday lifeways and experience of the people photographed. Basically, their methods of gathering food, group size, and kinship systems reflect a societal and subsistence culture that may very well be similar to how humans lived in the distant past. It should be pointed out however that this is very environment specific. You wouldn't expect similar lifeways at all in an open savannah or tundra or desert environment.
Weird...I've never had a problem maxing out my bandwidth using the Blizzard downloader. Fix your ports and it should work fine. Though that is only recently. I used Filefront when the game first came out.
I think the point is that the marginal difference in price per barrel from drilling in ANWR isn't worth the cost of the damage that would be done. And as far as writing a $135,000,000,000 check to an alternative energy research company...I seriously doubt that any rational person would expect that to happen. Regardless of the administration.
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The reason you're not totally impressed and surprised by things like shrink rays and strippers? Ya its because you're not 13 anymore. Been there done that. Welcome to adulthood its boring as hell.
Not really clear on how taking up arms to end the occupation in Iraq is a solution...Are you saying the political left should start assassinating politicians to get what they want? That honestly doesn't make any sense.
I agree that violence is sometimes the only solution. But all the situations you pointed to, which needed to be solved by violence, had absolutely nothing to do with 2nd amendment gun ownership.Absolutely true. Since when does having an education or using your brain to think through a problem somehow make you bad? It's a strange Ad Hominem attack. Having a college education or reading books that require a higher than 8th grade vocabulary doesn't say anything about the character of the individual. People that fall into the "I think I'm better than you" category fall EVERYWHERE across the political spectrum. But this "elitist" attack is applied primarily to people that fall left of center, particularly those who have a higher level of education than the national average.
I guess my question is then, "why?" What led to this particular situation? Who started it, who was the original pariah, and why is it applied more often in one direction than another? Any ideas?Posting from cell. Please be kind. Culture history isn't something we should forget. Disregarding the fact that if you drop a group of people from modern civ into that situation they probably wouldn't last a month, their cultural history would likely develop them into something different. I agree you can't look at these people and say this is humanity 10kya. Instead this gives us another example of the breadth of human cultural variation in a given environment. Alone we don't have much but combined with other examples we may be able to make detailed inferences about the past. Sorry if that was disjointed. Typing this took forever.
I think what he is getting at isn't the details of the culture, like their music or language. Those things change significantly through time so you wouldn't expect them to be the same. Rather he is referring to everyday lifeways and experience of the people photographed. Basically, their methods of gathering food, group size, and kinship systems reflect a societal and subsistence culture that may very well be similar to how humans lived in the distant past. It should be pointed out however that this is very environment specific. You wouldn't expect similar lifeways at all in an open savannah or tundra or desert environment.
Weird...I've never had a problem maxing out my bandwidth using the Blizzard downloader. Fix your ports and it should work fine. Though that is only recently. I used Filefront when the game first came out.
I think the point is that the marginal difference in price per barrel from drilling in ANWR isn't worth the cost of the damage that would be done. And as far as writing a $135,000,000,000 check to an alternative energy research company...I seriously doubt that any rational person would expect that to happen. Regardless of the administration.