Even though I have long thought that life came about in some sort of sloppy environment -- hot smoky vent, warm mud hole, clay mush -- whatever -- the...
I'm sick of hearing about race, gender, sexism, immigrants, fascists, feminists, the KKK, BLM, Donald Trump, Hillary's damn e-mails, etc. I'm just abo...
I thought John Maynard Keynes did not care about the long term because, his words, "in the long run we are all dead". Makes sense to me. But in any ca...
Is it the wood shack, reading by candlelight (you could read in the daytime, ya know), or dying at 30 that you find unsatisfactory? By the way, 30 was...
Capitalism also has a process called "creative destruction". Audio tape (reel to reel or cassette) augmented the vinyl record, and did nothing to the ...
This must be the first time that stone tools and circumcision has been used in the same sentence, and referencing the history of technology. If I were...
Absolutely. But it is hard to remember that stuffed into a small chair at 30,000 feet, eating the 10 lousy peanut pieces wrapped in plastic generously...
Good point, but a little longer than 70 years. 1839 for photography (with developmental events preceding); 1840s for the telegraph, (with developmenta...
The crow is, indeed, remarkable. Parrots too show remarkable capability. For that matter, so do squirrels when they want something. In order for anima...
Of course we are not replaceable. "You are all replaceable" is management talk for restless workers who might be thinking about organizing a union. We...
I have problems with calling beaver dams and birds nests 'technology'. Neither birds nor beavers wield their behavior deliberately or consciously. Bea...
The liberal press is saying that Harvey and Irma are laying climate change at Trumps door. Well, as much as I love both the liberal press and global w...
After all the publicity, she'd better perform up to expectations. AT LEAST a category 4. http://www.gstatic.com/tv/thumb/movieposters/1621/p1621_p_v8_...
Hewlett-Packard offices... Engineer to Product Manager: "Of course the printers are ready to work when we put them in the box. It's just that customer...
Your information is out of date. Salsa surpassed ketchup as the preferred American condiment a couple of decades ago. These days, even land-locked mid...
The "higher power" that a lot of AA people talk about seems to be a rather generic, powdered-add-water sort of religion. Higher power is to God what T...
The Good Doctor abjures any conspiracy in the wicked, high-fructose corn-porn-saturated food industry. However, a relatively small number of very larg...
This is such a ridiculous news item. In what universe is a woman seduced by a space ship? Alien monster's tentacles ripping her clothes off and explor...
Breakfast food is a good example of superfluous production. There are really very few ways one breakfast food can be more than trivially different tha...
Send a PM to one of the moderators. Personally, I don't get the whole "view answer" and "accepted" feature. I don't think it adds anything to discussi...
I am certainly a malcontent. I've been very unhappy with the system, and I've been willing to do what needs to be done. Changing our (or any establish...
Didn't you say you liked the Shire from Lord of the Rings? Was that you or somebody else? The shire -- a very low-population rural area--is ideal for ...
Actually, a good share of the United States is public property (28% of the total acreage is government owned forest land for instance). Public Propert...
There are bitter Americans, that is true. Whether many are bitter as a result of the several factors you list is doubtful. What is the source of bitte...
I don't know a great deal about 'distributism'. There are some aspects of it that are interesting and attractive. How do we get there? Dorothy Day and...
Our system only nominally works on the honor system, is only nominally voluntary, and for large corporations, is subject to various methods of screwin...
Yes, this argument has been made a number of times here and on the other PF. In reality, the "voluntary" tax honor system we have is not all that volu...
Unless you live in an absolute dictatorship, you have implicitly assumed the responsibilities of citizenship, one of which is supporting the governmen...
No. However, 'no state' presents a problem if a need for external defense or recovery from a cataclysmic event was necessary. Some kind of responsive ...
My guess is that you know this already, but it is Uncle Karl. Who said they looked forward to the last monarch being strangled with the intestines of ...
The variety of socialism that I follow holds that the state is, indeed, a problem, along with the bourgeoisie (which for Marx meant large capitalists)...
Of course you are pro-rich. It would be absurd for you to want to become rich if you were not pro-rich. Tell us, what is the outstanding work you do t...
Capitalists, even those speculators that Piketty was talking about, have an intimate relationship with the state--more intimate than most of the popul...
Just to be clear, you are saying that you agree with a tax rate of 80% or higher on non-productive stuff like financial speculation? Well, as the Fren...
Swamps get drained, evil entities get exorcized. I don't think there are any priests up to the task, these days. But there is something that can be do...
Here's a quote you'll like: As Will Rogers said: “The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.” Now, d...
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