GENIUS FORUMS

Capitalism is a system where any random person can control almost all capital. Socialism is a system where the government controls all capital. Is there really a difference? yes. one is economically efficient, and thus efficacious at producing growth; the other one isn't. Of course you can side wit...

If feminism, the removal of the gold standard, the credit system, the corporate world, Iraq, America's 60 trillion dollar debt, the yearly deficit of the US and the Stimulus Bill aren't the products of a buttload of stupid, then they're most definitely the product of a buttload of evil. Feminism, f...

I guess for some people, being asked to consider much apart from their own bank account is quite "demoralizing." The funny thing is that if they considered their banking accounts, they'd be working more, because the income tax rates are marginal, i.e. they only apply to additional amounts...

I say death to people who wish death upon others! oh wait...

Euro is the #2 reserve currency in the world behind the dollar. Nobody is widely using renminbi, or planning to, AFAIK.

DHodges wrote:Also, New Jersey has rural areas?

Yeah, they are the ones right behind the strip malls and inside the jug handles.

Torturing one guy could save a hundred others but still there are laws against torture. You cannot solve this by just crunching numbers. Only fascists and militarists tend to do that. So you are saying that you would prefer that, say, 5 guilty and 5 innocents die, rather than 5 guilty die and one i...

Can you appear more Mongolic ? [LOL] Photogenic suffering? Yes. photogenic for people like you, obsessed with the political equivalent of snuff porn. DIME wounds make great anger-rousing photos, no? much more so than boring old dead bodies. never mind that DIMEs actually reduce the number of deaths...

All physical powers and forces are just how we perceive nature working, it's a symbolic representation in the end. My definition of power is metaphysical, sure. Your denial of its fundamental principle just further ignorance. So make up your mind. Am I a fascist because im like you, believe that it...

Neoteny is a well-known result of selection pressure. For example, much of domestication is due to neoteny. Adult dogs exhibit characteristics of juvenile wild canines. An experiment in russia with breeding polar foxes for temperament, IIRC, replicated a similar effect in about a dozen generations; ...

You also get this...

Making this remark about "Xians" is as ignorant as the remarks made by the pastor in the article, Ataraxia. And I know you are keyboard-challenged, but the shorthand for "Christian" is vaguely offensive, like calling black people Negroes. The abbreviation 'xian' was invented by ...

Dan Rowden wrote:Jews created Fundie Xianity.

Even worse -- jews created QRS for the purpose of giving geniuses something navel-like to gaze at, thus distracting them from the task of defeating the jewish conspiracy.

You perform your job admirably. Your check is in the mail. :)

A more realistic example can be very variable. DIME weapons have different physical characteristics from conventional munitions. How it compares will depend on how it's used. Under some conditions, it will cause fewer deaths (both long- and short-term) in total, in others it might cause more. It's l...

i'm kind of frustrated because I thought I had infinite wisdom and now I don't believe in it. :D To a large extent, what you should be doing is losing bad beliefs, rather than try to gain good ones. It's like engineering. The design is perfected not when there's nothing to add, but when there's not...

thank you, vicdan. How can I not deny the reality of everything when everything outside of my perception is illusory? You are trapped in noumenal thinking. Same as QRS. :) Think about this statement: " everything outside of my perception is illusory ". First of all, illusion is an artifac...

Victor said, So once again: would you prefer more deaths -- but not as graphically horrific -- by substituting conventional munitions for DIMEs? 'Cuz that's the very point of DIMEs, you see: fewer deaths of innocent bystanders. I think Diebert's point is that those civilians with untreatable wounds...

Well, nihilism is not really about denying the reality of everything . It's about denying the reality of purpose and values and normatives, especially objective ones. In this sense, nihilism is in fact pretty self-evident. of course the point is that just because there is no objective meaning and pu...

Urban gangs building hospitals, schools and supplying welfare to piss poor people? Seriously? They are not big enough to build hospitals and schools, but yes, on small scale, they do a community outreach. They want to be seen by their communities as providers, conscintious pillars of the community ...

To me, power equals force which equals ability to effect, a fundamental aspect of energy. This is way more fundamental than the aspects you name. Kiddo, you are an idiot. You are missing the point. Physics is way more fundamental than psychology, and undergirds psychology; but only an autistic idio...

hahaha. I considered posting something to that effect, but restrained myself. :D

Vic, Im not quite sure what else I can offer you. nothing, really. You already offered what you had to offer. There is no "proof" that Obama is wiser than most Americans and possibly ALL republicans, but it is easy to see if one has the eyes to see it. Something tells me you expect me to ...

So about IDF shelling a UN school? Ooooops, that claim was an, uhhh, ummm, a clerical error I wasn't aware I posted anything relating to that incident. I was making a general point about your "Israel is deliberately murdering innocent civilians!" thing. And the fact that Hamas is the driv...

No, you just made that up. Interesting move. But I'll say it again: Fascism is fascination with power but also denial of how power actually works which is one of the factors which can lead to the excessive fascination if circumstance allow; it's ignorance in a coconut shell. Here are some condensed...

More or less, yes -- either neuron or neuronal connection loss. Either way, neuronal damage would probably be the most likely cause of the handedness switch.