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shirgall

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  1. I was kinda detached, myself, as I don't get emotionally invested in these discussions. I was interested to hear Stef whack the same examples that had already been attempted here.
  2. Note that the US Mint ran out of physical silver the same day. We'll see what happens when they do their next big buy.
  3. Surface area of England = 0.050346 million square miles Surface area of USA = 3.806 million square miles 4G cell phone coverage England = 73% of premises 4G cell phone coverage USA = 98% of premises
  4. Being shorter than Napoleon I hate moshpitting as a simple matter of self-defense. I've nearly been squashed like a bug in the past. Last time was seeing the Rev. Horton Heat.
  5. That's not an argument. I admit that project management has lead me down the path of boiling things down to their essence and getting to next steps. Even so, I'm feeling less and less engaged here. Most of the time it's because the cadence of my interaction in a thread is suddenly interrupted by sudden moderation.
  6. Especially since what is primarily left when one dies of old age is investments funding retirement expenses, a home, and personal effects whose sentimental value to the children is probably greater than their monetary value to the esurient state.
  7. Therefore, let's pile it all up under the body and send it off to the afterlife in a giant bonfire, Viking-style. Let's not give the dearly-departed any choice in how his or her hard-earned resources are used. Yeah, that's gonna motivate people.
  8. That's not feudalism. Feudalism is a relationship between a small group of military-minded real-property-owning absolute rulers who promise to protect those servants that serve them and work their land. What you have described is parents that pass the control of resources they have gathered to their children in order to perpetuate their particular flavor of the species.
  9. The same media that is ushering in the coronation of the next Demoautocrat?
  10. I suspect he wants a bunch of people to guess what he means and pick the best answer when we're exhausted.
  11. http://store.steampowered.com/app/231910/
  12. This is irrelevant. Can you state your reason for asserting that people following objective rules are subjective?
  13. Look at the difference between the tax rate on savings (the capital gains rate) and the tax rate on purchases (direct sales tax, income tax, and taxes on profit) modulo the effects of inflation (another hit on the value of savings). Most people are discouraged more from saving versus spending. Add to this the fear of increasing prices (the CPI) having a greater impact on the news cycle, and the higher-level focus being on GDP growth.
  14. Evolution is the best explanation (actually, it's a closely-related set of explanations of various processes) of the available verifiable evidence without relying on supernatural agents. If a better set of theories exists, it would attract a lot of people, as a lot of evolutionary mechanisms are difficult to grok.
  15. Well, let the EU and other foreign influences be cast out of Greece, too. It would help.
  16. Therefore when I propose that potential moral dictates be judged with objective rules and you call it subjective, you are asserting what exactly?
  17. Do you understand that "objective" means a judgment not influenced by personal feelings or opinions by only by considering and representing facts? If it doesn't mean this for you, we have no common ground on which to discuss this subject.
  18. http://digitalsynopsis.com/inspiration/privileged-kids-on-a-plate-pencilsword-toby-morris/ ?
  19. No. When you use objective rules you get objective results.
  20. It certainly makes sense, and I've abandoned some threads where no rationality seems probable. And, I admit, the "Qui bono?" approach to evaluation is a tried and true technique I should employ more often.
  21. You are asserting that, not me. The moral agent is the evaluator, not someone else. Either the methodology works or not. What's true is true whether or not you believe in it, or if someone else does.
  22. At no time did I invoke subjectivity or consensus. You'll find I seldom have ever done so except with discussing aesthetics, not morality. You will not bully me into a position I did not take.
  23. I honestly don't know how effective it is, but I try to do it to break up what I observe as inevitable bickering, where the participants are talking past one another. It hasn't always caused thread dissolution, but I'm hoping it brings some threads to a close. I always wonder if I should be more selective in what I read and respond to anymore. I hate the "wall of text" postings that don't say anything.
  24. Twitch casters earn viewers and followers by being interesting. It's entirely possible that one could earn some success this way, but the target audience is people that have a lot of free time to watch someone else play. What was the viewership count on Stef's video playing Doom and talking during it? I take it back, it was Unreal Tournament. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvxayyD2_74 10,000 views.
  25. No, selecting and testing objective rules is exactly how knowledge is earned.
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