Mar 3 2011: We do not expect every country to follow suit in order for US to start making economical decisions.
Whether or not a country has a "good water supply": I will presume there are 'people' in the countries you're referring to, and seeing as people NEED water, I'm guessing there is some kind of supply.
And, when comparing the availability of water to that of oil in my own geographic region: I know where a river is nearby, but not an oil well... so does this help me determine that I don't have a "good oil supply"? Or can that shit be pumped through veins across the Earth for thousands of miles, just like water?
Mar 2 2011: 10 million hours or so were spent gaming last year on FB --> Humankind could've resolved just about every one of its problems with that multiplicity of collaboration. Without FB, would these 10^7 hours have been spent otherwise? Or just gaming elsewhere? There seems to be an evil/narcissistic side that (like a greedy businessman) wants to take your time, getting you more and more inebriated with time spent online, without a single side-effect of relevant physical progression.
i.e. Is it more likely that you invite someone (you used to interact with physically) to play an online game with you and slowly the relationship swings towards a purely online interaction, or are you more likely to have fun playing an online game with a mutual online connection and develop a physical (vs. virtual) relationship with that person? I'm willing to bet not a single one of the incentive-based games on FB progresses you towards physically interacting with people (more like I'm willing to bet that's against FB's rules -- how negligent would it be to encourage people to meet up in real life? As you mentioned; recording your dialogue (typing, writing, chat, vmail, email) and conveying it to a displaced someone isn't nearly the same as the real-time event that takes place when two humans interact physically, and I know no set of criteria - except perhaps a dating services' - that would suggest the latter based on enjoyability of the prior).
More progressively, if the nature of FB inherently led towards developing a physical relationship with others in the world (yes I know it can be used for such a purpose, but I mean if this was THE driving idea behind FB) then FB's main purpose would be to get us OFF the internet and BACK INTO our PHYSICAL intimations, and the website would eventually see NO TRAFFIC. Thus, we can see what a profitable market FB has proven to be and deduce that it does not intend to dismantle or obsolete itself by means of encouraging healthy physical interaction
But how to pursue it?
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2nd 'reading' pushed back arbitrarily to March 2012... and you know the ones PRINTING the money (profiting off it coming into existence, let alone lending money they've yet to print/back) are behind the bill's current condition.
Mar 31 2010: I just have to say that isn't this point awarding feedback system quite the true-to-life example of how religion came to be? Now, instead of killing eachother we merely negate a point, but to the same avail, here's why: Your comment on here IS your proclamation (OR: religion) on the subject. If I am an amazonian whipping down this stream just taking away points based on the gist of what you are saying, it's comparable to killing you (only killing your integrity here). You will cease to be heard after receiving a myriad of negativity. If you're at -200 who's gonna bother with you for anything more than shock value? I'm embracing (agreeing) and rewarding those who think like me, instead of those who make a good argument and continue a chain of thought. "But I'll defend to the death your right to say it" is lost in that system. I have a better system in mind, but the chaos draws many more opinions in, doesn't it.
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Whether or not a country has a "good water supply": I will presume there are 'people' in the countries you're referring to, and seeing as people NEED water, I'm guessing there is some kind of supply.
And, when comparing the availability of water to that of oil in my own geographic region: I know where a river is nearby, but not an oil well... so does this help me determine that I don't have a "good oil supply"? Or can that shit be pumped through veins across the Earth for thousands of miles, just like water?
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i.e. Is it more likely that you invite someone (you used to interact with physically) to play an online game with you and slowly the relationship swings towards a purely online interaction, or are you more likely to have fun playing an online game with a mutual online connection and develop a physical (vs. virtual) relationship with that person? I'm willing to bet not a single one of the incentive-based games on FB progresses you towards physically interacting with people (more like I'm willing to bet that's against FB's rules -- how negligent would it be to encourage people to meet up in real life? As you mentioned; recording your dialogue (typing, writing, chat, vmail, email) and conveying it to a displaced someone isn't nearly the same as the real-time event that takes place when two humans interact physically, and I know no set of criteria - except perhaps a dating services' - that would suggest the latter based on enjoyability of the prior).
More progressively, if the nature of FB inherently led towards developing a physical relationship with others in the world (yes I know it can be used for such a purpose, but I mean if this was THE driving idea behind FB) then FB's main purpose would be to get us OFF the internet and BACK INTO our PHYSICAL intimations, and the website would eventually see NO TRAFFIC. Thus, we can see what a profitable market FB has proven to be and deduce that it does not intend to dismantle or obsolete itself by means of encouraging healthy physical interaction
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But how to pursue it?
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2nd 'reading' pushed back arbitrarily to March 2012... and you know the ones PRINTING the money (profiting off it coming into existence, let alone lending money they've yet to print/back) are behind the bill's current condition.
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