Does it make you feel better about yourself to place people into a box based on a single characteristic, and apply numerous negative characteristics to those people?
It feels so good to be superior to someone else, doesn't it? Especially when that superiority comes from being in line with the majority.
Sadly, PC users have to pay that price PLUS the increased maintenance costs, all while running AV software that grinds their machine's performance into the ground.
Plot oil in terms of gold, and you sill see that we are sitting on the 50 year average price for oil. It was just really cheap fairly recently (in real terms).
Detroit is a good indicator of where America will be in a decade or so. They are bulldozing homes and tearing up roads. Exponential growth does not continue forever. Same goes for linear growth.
Too be honest, I was talking more about the fires in Colorado and New Mexico, which are forests. Grassland fires would be easily managed by maintenance of fire-breaks, and aren't really that big of a deal in any event. It's not the trigger that matters with fires, it is the use of the normally useless pimple between most people's shoulders to manage those fires. Those homes could have all been saved if they had bothered to clear the grass and sagebrush within 50 or 100 yards of their homes. But they didn't. Clearly they aren't paying enough for their fire insurance, or their insurance companies don't have good policies that reward such thinking.
Note that you can rent a bulldozer for a few hundred dollars one weekend a year to make said fire break. If you live in a community, that makes defense even easier. But no-one does it (or at least, these people didn't). Why?
They are the stock from which a well regulated militia may be formed in dark times, and as such, have a right to firearms. Gun-snatchers care not for laws (natural or otherwise), they just want an ever greater imbalance of power between the people and the government. I wonder why?
You forget that humanity is capable of placing an incredible amount of selective pressure on domesticated animals. The Russians domesticated foxes in less than 50 years. It would be fairly simple to select for increased sociality among housecats, which would drive intelligence all on its own, even without much human intervention. A species gets runaway increases in intellect only when they are social. This is because the ability to model what the other guy is thinking helps you increase your odds of mating, and the self reference can make it blow up until you get something ridiculously smart, like a person.
They need to do controlled burns every few years, or just build permanent firebreaks. Stopping every fire you can for decades causes an unnatural buildup of fuel. When the time comes, the fire will be so large and hot you won't be able to stop it.
If you really wanted it to burn to the ground, you would do everything in your power to prevent every single fire until there was so much dry tinder that a hurricane couldn't put it out once started.
You know, official government policy with regards to wildfires.
I predict there will be ten fires started by anti-gun hippies communing with nature, smoking mj or improperly extinguishing fires for every one caused by a gun owner.
I further predict that those with backyard pools are ten times more likely to wind up with dead children than those who own guns.
And the extent of the fire that results is caused by government fire policy, which is really, really stupid, and in defiance of the natural order. THey allow tinder to build up for decades, and then blame the spark for the destruction. Sort of like putting 50 years worth of nuclear waste into a pool on the roof of a nuclear reactor, and then claiming it was the fault of a butterfly in Africa for causing the tsunami to come in and destroy all the backup generators that were stored on the ground floor.
Yes, those laws are ridiculous as well. These fires are caused by decades of idiotic policy that has built up enough dry tinder to roast the entire country. Instead of having small, controlled burns on a regular basis, we build and build and build, then blame the spark for our idiocy. Think about what would have happened if we eliminated 100% of human caused fires, and wound up with just one natural fire every fifty years. We'd be left with nothing but ashes from sea to soot covered sea.
Right, I'm sure we shouldn't just adopt sensible fire policy, where we stage regular controlled fires to stop these massive ones from sweeping across two decades worth of dry tinder, burning the entire countryside to a damn cinder.
These target shooters are about as responsible for these fires as a random radical is for starting a polymerization I didn't want to start in some monomer that I left out on the benchtop. Yeah, it's the radical's fault. That's the ticket! Not mine, for leaving the material outside of the fridge, or for removing the stabilizer without immediate plans to use it.
Of course they don't want to say that, because it is stupid, just as it has been since the days of Malthus. Some people would rather murder the world for their things than make something that people need, thus increasing efficiency, effectively increasing the available resources.
Never mind the idea of just plain new resources, like thorium.
Note that this is the case whether you buy it for yourself or whether some line worker at the Tesla plant does. Money is directly proportional to energy consumption, which means that the amount you spend will inevitably be proportional to the amount of CO2 put into the air. If you are afraid of that, then you need to spend less money, not more. If you don't care, then you must consider the other pros to this vehicle, of which there aren't many.
If you are worried about oil running out, and not being able to get a vehicle like this when it does, then you have bigger problems than transportation, and your priorities are totally crazy. You should be moving to the country and planting crops, not spending $50,000 on a car that will just be stolen from you in a peak oil zombie apocalypse.
I never heard of anyone hitting a cap. These are likely new, or you aren't applying for the other various types of student loans out there, including the private ones, which were available in unreasonably massive quantities when I was in school.
If there was going to be a limit before you graduated, I bet you wish it had been a lot lower, huh? Would have been nice if it had the effect of lowering the total cost of the education as well, so you could have actually afforded it.
Wow, you really bought the lie, didn't you? Housing prices fell, so they couldn't sell, so they were stuck in their underwater homes. Degrees can't be resold, so they are stuck no matter what. Get it now?
Also, you are biasing yourself when you look at what others are paid on Google. Those people already have jobs. You probably aren't going to get one when you graduate. Look at unemployment statistics instead.
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Does it make you feel better about yourself to place people into a box based on a single characteristic, and apply numerous negative characteristics to those people?
It feels so good to be superior to someone else, doesn't it? Especially when that superiority comes from being in line with the majority.
Sadly, PC users have to pay that price PLUS the increased maintenance costs, all while running AV software that grinds their machine's performance into the ground.
Plot oil in terms of gold, and you sill see that we are sitting on the 50 year average price for oil. It was just really cheap fairly recently (in real terms).
Detroit is a good indicator of where America will be in a decade or so. They are bulldozing homes and tearing up roads. Exponential growth does not continue forever. Same goes for linear growth.
Too be honest, I was talking more about the fires in Colorado and New Mexico, which are forests. Grassland fires would be easily managed by maintenance of fire-breaks, and aren't really that big of a deal in any event. It's not the trigger that matters with fires, it is the use of the normally useless pimple between most people's shoulders to manage those fires. Those homes could have all been saved if they had bothered to clear the grass and sagebrush within 50 or 100 yards of their homes. But they didn't. Clearly they aren't paying enough for their fire insurance, or their insurance companies don't have good policies that reward such thinking.
Note that you can rent a bulldozer for a few hundred dollars one weekend a year to make said fire break. If you live in a community, that makes defense even easier. But no-one does it (or at least, these people didn't). Why?
They are the stock from which a well regulated militia may be formed in dark times, and as such, have a right to firearms. Gun-snatchers care not for laws (natural or otherwise), they just want an ever greater imbalance of power between the people and the government. I wonder why?
Awww, whine more, butthurt coward.
Delineate for me the difference between theft by gunpoint and a raid by armed IRS agents without invoking the concept of a government.
Mythology is just religion that no-one believes any more.
You forget that humanity is capable of placing an incredible amount of selective pressure on domesticated animals. The Russians domesticated foxes in less than 50 years. It would be fairly simple to select for increased sociality among housecats, which would drive intelligence all on its own, even without much human intervention. A species gets runaway increases in intellect only when they are social. This is because the ability to model what the other guy is thinking helps you increase your odds of mating, and the self reference can make it blow up until you get something ridiculously smart, like a person.
They need to do controlled burns every few years, or just build permanent firebreaks. Stopping every fire you can for decades causes an unnatural buildup of fuel. When the time comes, the fire will be so large and hot you won't be able to stop it.
Where do you think lead comes from?
Just don't drink from lead pipes, or dump lead pellets in the water supply.
That modifys "militia", not "the right to bear firearms". This is basic fucking English here, people.
If you really wanted it to burn to the ground, you would do everything in your power to prevent every single fire until there was so much dry tinder that a hurricane couldn't put it out once started.
You know, official government policy with regards to wildfires.
Recreation has no benefit. People and property can be damaged by recreation. Therefore, ban all recreation.
I predict there will be ten fires started by anti-gun hippies communing with nature, smoking mj or improperly extinguishing fires for every one caused by a gun owner.
I further predict that those with backyard pools are ten times more likely to wind up with dead children than those who own guns.
Because power hungry individuals inevitably twist those laws into total bans.
And the extent of the fire that results is caused by government fire policy, which is really, really stupid, and in defiance of the natural order. THey allow tinder to build up for decades, and then blame the spark for the destruction. Sort of like putting 50 years worth of nuclear waste into a pool on the roof of a nuclear reactor, and then claiming it was the fault of a butterfly in Africa for causing the tsunami to come in and destroy all the backup generators that were stored on the ground floor.
Worked out well for the German Jewry, and all the other victims of massacres who were disarmed first.
Yes, those laws are ridiculous as well. These fires are caused by decades of idiotic policy that has built up enough dry tinder to roast the entire country. Instead of having small, controlled burns on a regular basis, we build and build and build, then blame the spark for our idiocy. Think about what would have happened if we eliminated 100% of human caused fires, and wound up with just one natural fire every fifty years. We'd be left with nothing but ashes from sea to soot covered sea.
Right, I'm sure we shouldn't just adopt sensible fire policy, where we stage regular controlled fires to stop these massive ones from sweeping across two decades worth of dry tinder, burning the entire countryside to a damn cinder.
These target shooters are about as responsible for these fires as a random radical is for starting a polymerization I didn't want to start in some monomer that I left out on the benchtop. Yeah, it's the radical's fault. That's the ticket! Not mine, for leaving the material outside of the fridge, or for removing the stabilizer without immediate plans to use it.
Of course they don't want to say that, because it is stupid, just as it has been since the days of Malthus. Some people would rather murder the world for their things than make something that people need, thus increasing efficiency, effectively increasing the available resources.
Never mind the idea of just plain new resources, like thorium.
$30,000 will buy a LOT of gasoline.
Note that this is the case whether you buy it for yourself or whether some line worker at the Tesla plant does. Money is directly proportional to energy consumption, which means that the amount you spend will inevitably be proportional to the amount of CO2 put into the air. If you are afraid of that, then you need to spend less money, not more. If you don't care, then you must consider the other pros to this vehicle, of which there aren't many.
If you are worried about oil running out, and not being able to get a vehicle like this when it does, then you have bigger problems than transportation, and your priorities are totally crazy. You should be moving to the country and planting crops, not spending $50,000 on a car that will just be stolen from you in a peak oil zombie apocalypse.
Before doing something catastrophic, like making them watch one of the new movies, watch this: http://redlettermedia.com/plinkett/star-trek/star-trek-first-contact/
DO NOT SHOW THEM ANY OF THE NEW STAR TREK MOVIES. PERIOD.
If you want to show them movies, show them the good ones from TOS.
I never heard of anyone hitting a cap. These are likely new, or you aren't applying for the other various types of student loans out there, including the private ones, which were available in unreasonably massive quantities when I was in school.
If there was going to be a limit before you graduated, I bet you wish it had been a lot lower, huh? Would have been nice if it had the effect of lowering the total cost of the education as well, so you could have actually afforded it.
Wow, you really bought the lie, didn't you? Housing prices fell, so they couldn't sell, so they were stuck in their underwater homes. Degrees can't be resold, so they are stuck no matter what. Get it now?
Also, you are biasing yourself when you look at what others are paid on Google. Those people already have jobs. You probably aren't going to get one when you graduate. Look at unemployment statistics instead.