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GreyPhantom wrote:Yeah we will get Herons in this area. The Zen of this pond is Springer Spaniels. The love water, they hate birds.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jryUUIqhwog

Lol nice.

Nice. Looks like it will be the best that it can be in today's world. Very nice.

Dear god, yet another reason for me to never step outside of US.

A perfect case where laws based on "the good of society" has to degenerate into its logical conclusion, such as banning noisy sex, lol.

This question should be what is the only role of a government (protection of individual rights) and then what are individual rights.

As an aside, Calthrop, what is your moral basis for taking away property from some to protect others from some flood?

I am actually black, so you have offended me.

But I, too, hate big banks and think that we need to put some shackles on them, which is why I have been voting for republicans.

Oh, I love Sarbanes–Oxley, too. <3

Synthi wrote:

Are environmental regulations bad under all circumstances?

Try using any village's well as a toilet. You will quickly be shown that it is environmentally regulated. For a good reason.

Not regulated. Owned. Private property for the win.

I always liked to point out to environmental nut job's that we have been warming since our last ice age, and it has been taken place looong, long before SUV's.. and that's even assuming you accept the ridiculous premise that man made CO2's has had any impact whatsoever compared to the vast amounts ...

Your conclusion is basically correct but your means are not and you basically digged yourself into a hole. The standard of good in free market is not "is competition promoted or not?" Competition is an effect not the cause. The cause is freedom and laws that protect that freedom, i.e. indi...

The amazing degree to which ex-commies and ex-socialists go to create their new story in order to call for destruction of Capitalism and self-interest. http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/climategate_cru_was_but_the_ti.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704075604575356611173414140...

Art is the physical manifestation of mental images or sounds created by an individual or group (orchestra, band, etc.) for the sole purpose of their enjoyment or the enjoyment of others (usually both). Not to pick on Argat but . . . Sigh. I must point out how modern culture completely mixes both en...

The subjectivity is in the very nature of brain receiving and processing input. For such a process to be objective, each brain would have to experience exactly the same perceptions and reactions given identical input, which is demonstrably not the case. So if color-blind people can't see color, I t...

Do you mean that anything that is perceived by a human mind is therefore subjective? All perception is subjective, even of objective reality. That is the very nature of perception. To perceive thing external to your mind is to experience your own subjective awareness of it. Why? I think this is the...

Art cannot exist without interpretation and reaction by a consciousness. So are many other ideas, such as an idea of concepts, justice, reason, etc. All these things don't exist as physical entities. Do you mean that anything that is perceived by a human mind is therefore subjective? Why can't perc...

What are the reasons to accept such a definition of art, though?

JudgeBob wrote:No artist, labor, thought, or producer is required.

Can you give me an example of such art?

I would personally like to know what Ayn Rand would say about this topic. She wrote an entire book on the subject: The Romantic Manifesto . http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=objectivism_nonfiction_the_romantic_manifesto You can find it any public library in US. Otherwise, it's pretty ...

Oh, did you think NASA was about US space program or at least wasting US dollars on US space "image?" Not anymore. http://theweek.com/article/index/204685/nasas-new-muslim-mission In an recent interview with al-Jazeera, NASA administrator Charles Bolden said President Barack Obama has aske...

Kaelan wrote:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... dream.html

For the joys of green energy

Ah, what a wonderfully small carbon footprint they have!

redhotrebel wrote:

Oleksandr wrote:The book comes out in 2 days. \o/ You can pre-order now. I have!

I think Olex is getting kickbacks from sales

Silence! Drink your booze and keep mining or ratting!


Speaking of which, my pre-order has already shipped. \o/

The book comes out in 2 days. \o/ You can pre-order now. I have!

PimpinYourhos wrote:The ancients believed certain mathematical principles were a subset of philosophy... What say you?

I'm not sure what you are asking.

Do you mean that they said that some math principles were a subset of philosophical principles? Or that philosophy defines some of math principles?

Gosh. I looked at the thread again. I need to add another point. Math =/= Philosophy. Whatever rules and methods you come up in Math has zero application in Philosophy. Math and Philosophy are two vastly different subjects by their very nature of what they do and don't study. So, please, no more usi...

Here is another audio response by Leonard Peikoff who gives a lengthy answer to the following question: What do you think of the plan for a mosque in New York City near Ground Zero? Isn’t it private property and therefore protected by individual rights? http://media.blubrry.com/peikoff/www.peikoff.c...

Not another damn red. I hate reds with a passion.

Here is a video with awesome Yaron Brook talking about recent McChrystal business and how wars should be fought. He is one of the contributors to the book as well.

http://pjtv.com/v/3810

Did anybody else hear about US giving out tax money to Sunis in Iraq, so that they don't shoot at us there? lol