Random Thought of the Day
August 12th, 2013 at 10:58:16 PM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 188 Posts: 18633 |
And they'd be surprised we aren't all in flying cars by now. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
August 13th, 2013 at 6:45:14 AM permalink | |
Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 |
Not if there has been no progress in the intervening half century. Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |
August 14th, 2013 at 1:24:43 PM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 188 Posts: 18633 |
"Flying car" was an Arthur C. Clark prediction from 1970/s. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
August 14th, 2013 at 5:23:46 PM permalink | |
Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 |
I read "Profiles of the Future." Offhand I can't recall whether that's true or not. However, the great man erred when it came to mobile phones. All the more ironic since he made his name in technology when he imagined the comsat. He goes into great detail about why more than a few thousand phones per big city would be a physical impossibility. Although he also comes close to a cellular network kind of idea, but dismisses it as impractical. Anyway, the flying car has been predicted ever since, oh, there were practical airplanes. So say since the 1910s onward, if not earlier. Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |
August 14th, 2013 at 9:21:59 PM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | Renderings have certainly gotten better in six decades. |
August 14th, 2013 at 9:58:05 PM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 188 Posts: 18633 | Now that I think about it, I remember hoping that we really were reverse engineering an alien "flying saucer" at a secret government installation and that one day they would reveal the technology. Oh well. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
August 14th, 2013 at 10:46:38 PM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | Feynman said the only Anti Gravity Device he knew of was a chair. |
August 14th, 2013 at 11:33:47 PM permalink | |
rxwine Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 188 Posts: 18633 | Hah, especially the easy chair. The discussion that started on a AP "working both sides" on the other board reminds me of something too.. Reputation Mobsters value it, because you can't count on anything else. The most powerful dictators can only have it as long as they're in power, and not a moment longer. If you're rich you can only rent it, but never own it. You can build it up for years and destroy it in a second. It's is one of the few things you leave behind when you're dead. You can't buy it, but you can still have it even if you've lost everything else. You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really? |
August 15th, 2013 at 7:02:21 AM permalink | |
Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 | August 15th 2013. You can't choke off the supply of anything for which there is a demand for just by passing a law. A demand for labor has driven immigration, despite making it hard or impossible to immigrate legally to a country. The demand for drugs drives the drug trade, despite making all drugs ilegal (except alcohol and nicotine). The supply keeps coming, only ilegally, at a higher price, and acompanied with the criminal elements necessary to make it work (ie drug smugglers, human traffickers, associated gangs, etc) and highly negative consequences (overcrowded prisons, underground economies, etc). Further restrictions won't help the situation. Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |
August 15th, 2013 at 9:05:27 AM permalink | |
Fleastiff Member since: Oct 27, 2012 Threads: 62 Posts: 7831 | Sin taxes funded most state expenditures despite rampant smuggling. Tobacco, whiskey, playing cards, teas ... easy to smuggle, not likely to be stamped out by taxation. The Boston Tea Party kept a major smuggler from being ruined when his 12 cent Dutch tea (smuggled) had to compete with lawfully imported British tea at 2 cents. The point was that there were no social welfare programs or armies of state employees or anything that a State really had to spend its money on. A very sporadic and leaky taxation system based on Sin was just fine to finance what little had to be financed. So the "demand" is really the fault of the state. Fifty hours of labor was all it needed to bring in a year's crop of corn. Leisure pursuits were just fine. No one needed an industrious population. No one needed an efficient tax collector. |