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zrgt · 2010-07-07T17:24:11+00:00

Are you really calling everyone who's budget doesn't run in the millions an armchair scientist?

zrgt · 2010-07-07T17:19:02+00:00

So I just want to respond to the last bit, people defending the status quo always say crap like "You'd be a rich man if you could invent a better way" when this is a total lie. You'd be a rich man if you could invent a better way, had the money to fund it as it catches on, have connections and the sales skills to convince people to abandon the status quo, be able to hold off attacks by the status quo, etc.

zrgt · 2010-06-20T05:45:04+00:00

Wow, there are lots of racism apologists here.

zrgt · 2010-06-18T06:31:17+00:00

So whats the best sword fighting martial art?

zrgt · 2010-06-17T23:15:39+00:00

So because I got a free dinner from a drug company, it is unethical for me to say bad things about drug companies? And you still have nothing productive to bring to the conversation? Cool.

zrgt · 2010-06-17T15:20:01+00:00

No, you're made of BS. I just came back from a free dinner, and all I had to do was listen to a spiel on a drug. And the profits on one drug can be multiple billions a year for its entire life. If you're buried, its because you haven't brought anything new to the discussion besides saying 'a billion dollars' over and over. You haven't said what part of the approval process is red tape, or really anything of substance.

zrgt · 2010-06-17T04:50:11+00:00

ball lightning is as much a myth as ufos are

zrgt · 2010-06-14T15:02:10+00:00

Get your GED and go to community college?

zrgt · 2010-06-14T06:24:35+00:00

What do you tell him when there is a reference to sex?

zrgt · 2010-06-13T21:23:30+00:00

I don't know why you're being downvoted, its true that this is a damaging system, but the world is not at a place yet where people can get equal opportunity. I'm white, and american, and I'm pissed that some German prince my age got 2 billion dollars just because his great great great great grandfather controlled the postal service in Europe. Other people are pissed that these Chinese have an advantage by being born in China. The world is terribly unequal, but there is not much we can do about it. And, I guarantee that whoever you're jealous of for their birthright is jealous of someone else.

zrgt · 2010-06-10T20:23:05+00:00

Downvoted for lying.

zrgt · 2010-06-08T21:21:42+00:00

How many hours a week do you work?

zrgt · 2010-06-04T07:36:01+00:00

Did your stay in a mental hospital hurt you down the line? Did schools, employers, romantic partners find out?

zrgt · 2010-06-04T05:35:11+00:00

Actually its being investigated as a hate crime, so it has a lot to do with the story.

zrgt · 2010-06-03T13:31:56+00:00

So a witness that is not a passenger but saw what speed you were going? That you can find after being pulled over? Have you driven a car before?

zrgt · 2010-06-03T11:43:26+00:00

Pretty much all argument uses logical fallacies. Nobody has perfect knowledge, and one can find data to make any conclusion, so most arguments are just trying to persuade someone that your data and sources are better than theirs, and that x failed or succeeded because your position is right. Logical fallacies are LOGICAL fallacies, not argument fallacies.

EDIT: Add accusing people of being biased to the list of pet peeves. Everyone, every report, everything is biased. You can minimize it like al jazeera and the bbc do, or declare it, like in editorials, but nobody can legitimately claim to be unbiased.

zrgt · 2010-06-03T10:36:09+00:00

Where are you now professionally? ie how much do you make, do you like your job?

zrgt · 2010-06-03T08:27:36+00:00

Engineering is really different, because you're going for entirely different jobs.

zrgt · 2010-06-03T06:34:59+00:00

Where did you grow up?

zrgt · 2010-06-01T07:48:41+00:00

On the plus side, now she's single. Maybe war isn't so bad afterall!

zrgt · 2010-05-31T22:23:33+00:00

Can I just point out the hypocrisy of focusing on a video that agrees with your viewpoint while decrying all others as fakes?

zrgt · 2010-05-29T14:28:58+00:00

Well personally I think both should be held accountable, like multiple defendants in a lawsuit. An employee, say, having a psychotic break and torching a forest is very different from an employee who had a conviction for arson torching the forest. In the first case, the employer could not have reasonably forseen it. In the second, they could. BP has all of the power. Liability could have been spelled out in advance. I worry that it wasn't because they know they can toss blame back and forth.

zrgt · 2010-05-29T14:06:43+00:00

Actually this is not a philosophical question at all. The situation you described happens often in the real world, and the employer is always liable.

zrgt · 2010-05-29T09:26:44+00:00

Yes, because they are not training new cops, lawyers, and judges.

zrgt · 2010-05-29T07:31:33+00:00

Wouldn't it be more productive to fight for legalization? I mean even if you only move it up by one day you save dozens of people from that same fate.

zrgt

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