If you can't model people's behaviour with reasonable accuracy, then why do you keep trying to promote changes when your assumptions are flawed?
People will tend to do more of things that: - are Easier
- are Less Expensive
- make them Happier
People will tend to do less of things that: - are Harder
- are More Expensive
- make them less happy
Things aren't that simple. The less expensive things long term are more expensive to start and harder. The easier things short term have costs later. Your two lists simply don't jive with reality.
|
|
|
The problem is, your model is not consistent with reality. Oh? Free trade has not improved service and product in every industry to which it has been applied? Actually, free trade has created absolutely gigantic problems.
|
|
|
Ask him politely. If that doesn't work, call the police.
|
|
|
Instead of face bashing, maybe he'll key your car, let the air out of the tires, or something like that.
Anyway, I think you'd be more effective at annoying him if you played a soundtrack in a language he can understand. That will force his attention away from what he's doing.
|
|
|
I personally disagree with the direction the criticism is taking here.
There is nothing worse than an artist who feels compelled by the public to satisfy the least common denominator. Real art is from the heart and mind of the artist, and his world, harnessing his inner human condition, his specific talents, and so on.
|
|
|
If the person you pay to watch your house at night were instead expending efforts to break into your neighbor's house, or to burn it down, or to sabotage your neighbor's security, would you continue to pay for such poor service?
Is my house safe? If so, why should I complain? Because you're paying for things you're not getting. Either he is charging you enough to cover his costs for watching your house - and instead of doing that, he's sabotaging your neighbor, or he's charging you enough to cover his costs for watching your house and for sabotaging your neighbor. Either way, you're paying him to sabotage your neighbor, when he signed up to watch your house. And if I don't like my neighbor, this works for me. Even better if the newly empty lot next door becomes available for me to annex as a garden. I might as well do it first before my neighbor does it to me, right? Well, I see that the gods have seen fit to provide me with another sociopathic statist to torment. Good, Welcome to the forums. I hope you'll understand if I don't want you as a neighbor. What about neighbors who engage in badger huggings?
|
|
|
Myrkul seems to be watching this thread, but he hasn't disagreed with the OP claim...
Because nothing you've said so far wouldn't apply to a private military force as well. Interesting concept. Who would a private military serve? Who does a restaurant serve? Who does a security company like Brinks serve? Who does any private industry serve? In general, only those who can pay for it.
|
|
|
So did anybody watch any of the recommendations found herein?
|
|
|
so what do you believe when it comes to whistleblowers? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trWcqxrQgcc there are plenty of people that put their jobs and reputation on the line for no apparent gain in regards to events like 9/11 but it seems you choose to ignore them or don't even know they exist through blindly rejecting the conspiracy and not doing any research. "The mocking of conspiracy theories in the American press and Western media is based on the simplistic argument that reason is on the side of the government and officialdom, not on the fringe of society and civilization. Anti-conspiracy proponents ludicrously claim that conspiracy theorists are prey to paranoia and irrational thinking without explaining their own faulty reasoning. They put a huge emphasis on labels and none on facts. But they’re not unique. Apparently, name-calling is enough to win a court case in a 21st century American courtroom." Investigative journalism is not what conspiracy theorists do. If only conspiracy theorists would engage in investigative journalism. As for your last two paragraphs: The mocking of conspiracy theories is not due to the simplistic argument you've stated. Read the article I posted.
|
|
|
What needs to be said in this thread has essentially been said.
|
|
|
It is not correct to use an apostrophe to indicate that a word is in the plural form.
Plural example: I can't stand all the fees I have to pay.
Singular possessive form: The fee's due date is tomorrow.
Plural possessive form: All the fees' due dates are tomorrow.
Contraction form of a single fee combined with the word 'is': Paying this fee's going to kill me.
Damn, I wish I had this when I was in school: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe#Use_in_forming_certain_pluralsWhat is your opinion of greengrocers' apostrophes?
|
|
|
It is not correct to use an apostrophe to indicate that a word is in the plural form.
Plural example: I can't stand all the fees I have to pay.
Singular possessive form: The fee's due date is tomorrow.
Plural possessive form: All the fees' due dates are tomorrow.
Contraction form of a single fee combined with the word 'is': Paying this fee's going to kill me.
|
|
|
Don't be the one holding the bag, so to speak.
The only way to make it work is if others, not part of the game, are momentum followers. In other words, your gang would be the catalyst to break resistance, which brings in the momentum players.
|
|
|
BTW, there was some argument as to whether Nick Vogt (ex-army amputee) was playing the part of Jeff Bauman in the marathon. It's pretty much confirmed - even outside the following video, the guy at the marathon was found to have a pinky missing as per Nick Vogt and his very unique hairline matches up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhwLYrRWUG8You really have to stop with this garbage. Instead of actively seeking out the outlandish crap produced by those who have an agenda to both absorb conspiracy material because they already believe it and manufacture it as well, what you should do, if you had any common sense at all, is seek to verify it or refute it. Don't you think, that if you actually attempted to start verifying or refuting, you would actually find something worthwhile out? You can and should do some of your own homework here. You can verify or refute your above claim. Two ways to do it: find information out there on the Internet which refutes it, or physically go find these people and talk to them. You're not bothering to do method number 1, and you won't do method number 2. Otherwise, you're accomplishing nothing but rubbing the backs of other nuts, and convincing nobody else. So what's the point? Do some real research, instead of reposting the ravings of other nuts. That's not how the truth is discovered. Be a skeptic of your own beliefs for a day, and actively attempt to refute a claim such as the one you just made, and then I think your tune will change. Also, not only is their no evidence his pinky is missing, there are very clear photos showing his pinky is not missing (on left hand).
|
|
|
The conspiracy theory just isn't plausible at all given the sheer number of disparate and participating parties necessary for cooperation. It just defies all imagination.
ok so that's what makes it unlikely in your eyes (and probably most others), there are links with the FBI, FEMA the federal government and therefor the Israeli lobby, surely there are enough trusted people within such a large group to get the job done? keep in mind that they may believe they're doing the right thing in getting gun control etc in preventing everyone killing each other when the economy collapses. -- edit - gotta go, argue amongst yourselves :] What about emergency response teams, paramedics, fire departments, police forces, local and state and university, dispatchers, event planners, marathon runners, spectators, office workers in the buildings, all the media organizations (CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, newspapers, magazines), investigative reporters, residents in Watertown, gas station owners where the hijacked man escaped, insurance companies, the boat owner, your supposed crisis actors, hospital personnel, the wounded, mortuaries and funeral planners, funeral attendees...
|
|
|
Now the story is changing. Was it staged? Or was it real, but perpetrated internally? If the latter, than all the footage of actors, missing signs, etc. is pointless.
|
|
|
The only holes are in the official story, we're just piecing together what happened, I can't see how you can ignore that guy repositioning himself or other obvious signs of poor acting with lousy props, the double amputee that didn't get help for 6 minutes while everyone around him was being attended to - his injury didn't even look fresh, unlike the bright red stuff they tried to pass off as blood that was all over the joint. Then there's all the injured with blood but no obvious injury and others with crazy tears in their clothes with no visible injury. That's just one small part, I don't want to go into the rest.. it's late.
I didn't see any poor acting, nor do I think I saw acting at all. I saw what looked like some extremely dazed and confused people who just experienced a chaotic event. I didn't see any lousy props. I watched the video about 15 times very carefully. I also don't know the exact dynamics of what happens to clothing when an explosion happens. If you do, as you seem to think, then no doubt there are other people who know as well, and I'm quite certain they would have been consulted to create the proper 'effects' and not improper effects. Thus, it is reasonable to assume you have no case with regard to the clothing you're seeing. When you can, please explain all the parties that would need to be involved and mum about the whole thing.
|
|
|
When are you going to accept that your conspiracy theory has way more holes and difficulties than the real thing?
Official story has holes, conspiracy theory has more holes, ergo official story must be true? The conspiracy theory just isn't plausible at all given the sheer number of disparate and participating parties necessary for cooperation. It just defies all imagination. Ergo, official story must be true. A simple "yes" would have sufficed. And your position? Consider the following question being asked of you: Official story has holes, conspiracy theory has more holes, ergo official story must be true?
|
|
|
When are you going to accept that your conspiracy theory has way more holes and difficulties than the real thing?
Official story has holes, conspiracy theory has more holes, ergo official story must be true? The conspiracy theory just isn't plausible at all given the sheer number of disparate and participating parties necessary for cooperation. It just defies all imagination. Ergo, official story must be true.
|
|
|
|