Next Chairman for Intelligence Opposed War. This is such a biased headline as to be ridiculous. A Democrat is going to be the chairman of intelligence and statistically, yea, nearly all of them oppose war. Opposed the Iraq war, not war in general. 58% of Democrats in the Senate and 40% of Democrats
Remember last week when you were saying it bugs you to be judged by what percent of your income you give rather than the raw amount? It was just an aside, I guess I read too much into it.
The only time doing bad things is in someone's best interest is if there's a deficiency in the law or the laws aren't being effectively enforced. The quasi-theoretical example you provide assumes that a custom officer has it in his best interest to let expired medicine be shipped. You're taking a huge
Wish I could find the headline I first saw this story under, it would really have pissed Brad off. It was something like "Poor give more than rich, study finds." Like 6% of $20,000 is more than 3% of $2 million. Giff, I don't think it's appropriate to pressure someone over whether they give enough to charity, especially when you're comparing it to the size of your own donations. Gives kind of a holier-than-thou feeling. (Plus, you can't wi
Nobody mentioned this, so it might not be a new feature, but that starship viewer you are using to generate pics like Link looks awesome!
That's actually a very cunning strategy for getting people to read your blog. It's too late to catch the first wave where you could get big just by being there first, like Instapundit. So start a blog site that builds a community around it to draw more hits.
MasonM, in your example, someone could argue that helping the guy with the broken leg is in the others' best interest because it will help them accomplish their goals. Why not go simpler. I want to feed my family. I dam the river and irrigate. Miles downstream, people starve. If it was one mile downstream, it might be in my self-interest to share the water with my neighbor. But if it's a thousand miles, it's definitely in my self-interest to let
Gideon, I'm afraid I won't see it if you post it somewhere else. Imagine how much poverty and suffering could be done away with if everyone simply chose to take care of themselves and those in their immediate circle of friends/family. I understand why what I said would be dumb if everybody just
That's because gaming companies started being run by corporations and not nerds, and the corporations realized, "Hey, 90% of our users never see the final level, why are we putting so much effort into it?" So now the games are shorter. I tend to get all the way to the final boss and then quit, figuring I've seen everything the gameplay has to offer and not wanting to struggle through that grueling fight just for the end movie.
Sometimes doing the "right thing" can also be the thing that's best for you personally. But the more it is, the less moral weight your decision gets. Feeding your own children is good, but not as good as feeding the same number of children who aren't related to you. Buying a raffle ticket is good, b
If that widow had really expected to get her two mites back tenfold, I don't think she would deserve any praise at all. It's not a moral decision at all then, it's just an investment. Morality is about doing the opposite of what would naturally be better for you. Which is why any statement of the form, "That's the way it should be. It's natural selection," makes no sense. If there's a should involved, the way things would happen
little-whip, I left the exact opposite impression with you than I meant. I picked Gates for my example precisely because he's the anti-Michael Milken, the guy who helped people by bringing great products to market [i]and[/i] took the money from that and helped the people that markets just don't help. I think of Gates as America's Mother Teresa, so much I didn't think of expanding my sentence to say "he made Windows, but he never would have helped any
I haven't read Nietzche so I doubt my philosophy came from him. i'd say if you haven't read him you don't know if your philosophy came from him. Like how we all say "all's well that ends well" and "dead as a doornail" without knowing it came from Shakespeare. Half of the time I agree w
The reason being that I resent compassion being measured in what PERCENT of my income I hand out rather than the raw total. I think that's a Christian thing... Jesus sat
OK, that' s hilarious. Though I was kind of confused by not realizing they were using actors to represent the 2000 basketball handover.
Heh, according to Wikipedia Ebert's two film credits are Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) and Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens, "a sexploitation satirical film starring Uschi Digart and Kitten Natividad written and directed by breast fetishist Russ Meyer." Valley of the Dolls was written very shortly after he started reviewing movies in 1967, but I hope Ebert included a disclaimer when reviewing any other breast fetish movies released in 19
So if Miramax paid a movie reviewer thousands of dollars to write a screenplay, there would be no conflict of interest suspected when he gave the thumbs down to the next Paramount movie coming out opposite a Miramax film? Buying Civilization IV [i]would[/i] have precluded me from buying Galactic Civ, because I only have the time for one. The reviews for GCII were better. Better reviews for your opponent's games may increase the size of your
I think she is the most photoshopped right-wing figure, ahead of Dick Cheney. Every one I have seen has seemed either racist or sexist.
the correspondent lost someone close to them and turned, against my repeated pleas, to mysticism and altruism. Altruism? "My grief has caused me to believe that President Bush blew up the World Trade Center, and to send him tasty muffins." If you take all the harsh adjectives out of
When you click on Warp Drive in the tech screen you can see the ships it enables like Dreadnought (5 other techs) and then it shows the five other techs you need (Large Hull Building, etc). This post is 55% helpful and 45% inaccurate.
Starbase module made available: Interstellar Outhouse.
Do not buy the game with a GeForce 2 and 256 MB of RAM. The ships will be monochromatic instead of awesome and the games will take five minutes to load. Just play a different game and buy GC2 when you get a different computer.
JubJub is referring to the Battle of New Orleans Link , which was about 800 British casualties to 13 American. That was after the war ended, though, so it doesn't really tell why we survived.
danielost, you are just making things up. Iraq has 115 billion barrels of reserves. ANWR has between 6 and 16 billion. The U.S. isn't even in the top 10. [link="http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0872964.html"]http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0872964.html">Link
As to your oil comment, this is as old as time itself, and I think you'd be interested to know that most of America's oil comes from countries well outside the middle east, and that Iraq's oil fields are barely in working order, let alone exporting a relevant amount of oil. Iraq provides roughly 5% of America's oil imports, so please try again. The US also gets ZERO oil fr
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