shirgall

Consider Lean Habits for Lifelong Weight Loss http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00O0FJ66K This book spends time on getting into good habits and making them stick, without beating you up for occasional missteps. Good empiricism too.

Remember that even with the state $2B was donated to Haiti relief voluntarily. Never mind that it was hoovered up by the NGO operating the relief and very little of the money made it to Haiti. It it therefore easy to imagine that an untaxed stateless society would be quite willing to offer a helping hand, and might even be more careful about it.

...and a cover-up by "cleansing" wikipedia. http://www.caryinstitute.org/newsroom/wikipedia-politically-controversial-science-topics-are-vulnerable-information-sabotage

http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2015/debconf15/Philosophy_of_Free_Software.webm A discussion of the emerge of "free software" as an opposite reaction to "software is copyrightable", with a survey of philosophical thought leading up to that. If you squint you might see me in the audience. In 45 minutes it's not fair to characterize the philosophical contributions of so many people, but do folks agree with the characterizations of the contributions of the big thinkers she covers? What do folks think of the veneration of Martha Nussbaum and the venom for Friedrich Nietzsche?

Practice arguing for and against the positions selected for the debate. Avoid metaphors, they tend to confuse issues more than they illustrate them. Learn to give 90-second "elevator pitches" and practice building up your examples to fit the model. Learn BLUF (bottom-line up front) and the art of writing newspaper articles (lede up front, supporting facts next, details later) so that everything you spend time on it the most effective it can be. This is not your role model:

Don't worry, you aren't alone. I became incredibly jaded 15 years ago on match.com, when I could observe the difference in matches when my profile listed a height of 5'9" or 5'10". Just get out there and do the things you like to do, make some friends, and go from there.

My thought that the subject is a brief discussion in any potential relationship that gives the participants a lot of insight into one another. If it turns into a repeated discussion, then the other person was probably not honest with their original answer.

You are relying on things that move to make a claim that nothing can move? I will assume this is specious snark, and move on. Pun intended. I put "still" in quotation marks for a reason. In one frame of reference you may appear still. In others you are moving very quickly indeed. One has to move very quickly compared to the Earth to get into Earth orbit, let alone beyond it. It is not implausible to do so. I've even observed it.

It's not implausible. Standing on the equator you are revolving around the center of the Earth at over 1,000 miles per hour. The Moon orbits the Earth at just under 3,000 miles per hour. The Earth is revolving around the sun at 67,000 miles per hour. The entire solar system revolves around the center of the Milky Way galaxy at 515,000 miles per hour as well. Just standing "still" you are going very fast indeed.

You expect a camera that was optimized for weight in 1971 (Apollo 14) to have superior image stabilization *and* dynamic range? Do you understand how much better cameras and sensors and electronics are now compared to then?

Apparently a "unicorn" is a millennial who hasn't tried online dating: http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts/im-a-millennial-with-no-online-dating-experience-aka-a-unicorn-7539316

I see evidence all the time that humans don't really have to understand much to live long enough to breed. It's not a given.

Not really, we got to being human from a lot of other forms that didn't necessarily understand anything.

http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/08/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-july-jobs-report-in-one-chart/

Hillary gets plenty getting energy deals for her friends. Her husband got $4B donated to Haiti relief, of which only $200M made it onto the island. Seems like you are measuring results with the wrong yardstick.

In Physics, "work" is merely force over some distance, so, indeed, for every person murdered, maimed, robbed, or just plain cheated (to wit, "everyone"), socialism works.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/05/opinion/in-zimbabwe-we-dont-cry-for-lions.html?referrer=&_r=0

Harold Agnew carries the plutonium core of "Fat Man": 20 minutes after that core was detonated

An accident is not even an analogous situation. What would correspond better is if someone who got in a car and drove into a crowded sidewalk, so they sued the gas station.

"We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them." -- Titus Livius ("Livy") 27-25 BC (Also "The populace is like the sea, motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.")

Time for there to be a FDR meetup to play Diplomacy! http://www.amazon.com/Avalon-Hill-221930000AVH-Diplomacy/dp/B0015MN6JE http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=ah/prod/diplomacy

This is interesting, because in The Walking Dead living people keep emphasizing that even though the world has ended we shouldn't lose our humanity. Of course, the title refers to the survivors and not the zombies. It's point is that humanity is already dead, but for some reason keeps going through the motions... like a zombie.

Socialists want a classless society but somehow we ended up with a tasteless one.

Hrm, I call this phenomenon "Mastery of Sand Castles". I saw it a lot in my RPG days, or video games days, or pretty much all the time where people gain mastery of a subject but not necessarily mastery of themselves. Wanting to be Superman, or Gandalf, or even Joan of Arc is the desire to be greater than oneself without doing all the work, or taking any risk. There's another phenomenon of Zombie movies, where people seem to want to see what it's like when the world ends, and their normal skills become super because most everyone has died or can't cope. Compare Robinson Crusoe to The Walking Dead some time to see a marked difference in survival motifs.