Do you agree then that a very small clog can exert great leverage on the machine, producing exceedingly great force relative to its size? If so, then ...
It means, for example, that friction always produces heat. It doesn't one time produce heat, and the next time produce butterflies. It always produces...
Why will it occur if certain conditions are met? Friction always produces heat because it is directed towards the production of heat. That's part of i...
Right, but that's not the question I was asking. I wasn't asking why it catches fire in this or that particular instance. Clearly, it does because of ...
Even though the referenced aspects are open to observation? Take the case of the match. We observe that it consistently produces fire when we strike i...
Okay, so then why wouldn't you report her if it is sexual assault? You don't want to do your duty as a member of the community and prevent this horrib...
I don't think you're correct in this analysis. The Aristotelian notions are signposts which signal to some relevant aspects of reality. Do those aspec...
So if you're in a nightclub for example, and a random girl tries kissing you out of the blue, will you report her to the police, even though she stopp...
:B Why is it not acceptable? If a woman kisses you while you're asleep will you complain of sexual assault? I may tell her not to do that when I awake...
I will not reply further, since you are obviously not ready to follow the conclusions of your own reasoning and keep trying to hide behind your own fi...
Talks to self: Agustino, control, control, resist the temptation to click that link or else you will get angry when reading the stupidity that may awa...
False, I never said that. Proof: Nope, those terms are related but different. Nope. You have no understanding of feedback loops or how systems regulat...
You are the one muddying the waters. It is really a pathetically low level of philosophy. You do not even coherently distinguish between impulses, int...
I was correcting a general assumption that people make, namely that spending is good for the economy or virtuous. That's not necessarily true. How thi...
And those processes don't affect each other, and don't function together to create effects that they couldn't by themselves? For example, is a match n...
That is false. Part of understanding a thing is understanding that thing within a particular context. There are no context-less things out there. So w...
So... if someone genetically engineered a horse to become a unicorn, then the unicorn would be fictional? :s What makes them different, apart from exi...
No, I wasn't saying anything with regards to you in particular or AZ in particular (I don't know much about AZ haha). Was just talking a theoretical i...
That is production, why does it matter that you produce a service or a manufactured gadget? Cleaning services, etc. have practical and productive effe...
That's what science has always sought to do - looking for the limit conditions (what you call unusual circumstances) of theories. Seeing farther than ...
No time to reply to everything now, but I may get back to some responses in more detail. No, that's not what you're saying because you think it's reas...
There is no question of resisting your own self if that's what you mean. There is no self outside your self to resist your self, so the very question ...
It's 0.4% of the value I added. That's too much? :s Really?! It is only selfish if "the individual" = Agustino. Otherwise if I value the individual (a...
Of course I can't choose my self, because that would imply to be other than my self when choosing. That would be contrary to the whole notion of being...
Not compared to the value I added. So why should the government invest that money, instead of me the individual? :s Why can't the responsibility for t...
This analysis is naive because it leaves out of the question your own self. There's nothing in the picture that you can identify with your self at thi...
Sure, but they would also deserve a fair share of the value they add. If they get 5-10% of it, that seems fair. It's not just that someone can do it f...
Why is it excessive if I am an absolutely essential piece in the distribution of those $5 billion worth of goods? Would you rather have excessive pric...
I don't really care about sexuality at this point in my life though, so it would largely be irrelevant to me personally, but for the future, I imagine...
How is value profit based? :s Profit is the difference between revenues and costs. If anything your profit margin is an indication of the percentage o...
Nope, my choice isn't caused by my impulses at all. That's exactly why impulses can be resisted once they are perceived in the first place. :s - that'...
Hmmm... let's see. I already have trouble sleeping (not falling asleep, but as in I don't sleep enough), so definitely 2 for me. I can work at night t...
:'O That's irrelevant. :s - a job that doesn't produce anything useful, but merely involves consumption of goods that others produce isn't useful to t...
That's wrong. The economy doesn't grow because of consumption, it grows because of production. Consumption is destructive of the value that is created...
That's why our economy is going badly. People get paid to work and they slack off. Finish a week's task in a few hours... Listen to that... No doubt t...
Right, so then it's time to take back your statement that Agustino is sexist, since that is clearly wrong, even by your own criteria. You should now s...
Getting back to the substance of that argument though, there is a reason why I picked that definition. I know what unenlightened, being older, has in ...
My apologies, which question do you mean? I was busy responding to Baden and Sappy, and some older posts, that's why I didn't address your question. N...
Correction, it's not a few members. Those who agree with you are few. There are many members - over 7-8 long-time members who have expressed open disa...
So he cites my definition, and then writes out his argument. Did he, or did he not equivocate? Yes or no? I shouldn't have to bicker so much with you ...
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