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To add to this, 25% of Americans are Evangelical or similar faiths. Since the 1980's after the Fundamental Baptist preacher, Falwell, created a coalition of both Fundamentalists and Evangelicals to infiltrate society and politics to recreate the US under theocracy, many of these people have either been actively seeking or have not been opposed to a Christian theocracy. It is not wholly uncommon to see members of this 25% worshiping politicians or training their followers how to vote and what to support.

Edit: Don’t get mad at the messenger. This is all from their own mouths. Obviously there’s bias for religion here . . .

Edit2: This sort of proves the point that Americans, whether they are Christian or not, give the benefit of the doubt to religion, regardless of stakes. I challenge you to disprove anything I said: Falwell created the Moral Majority, created a religious coalition with the express interest to re enter society and elect republicans, and here’s evangelicals worshiping Bush.

Here is a book about Falwell that’s probably as honest as you can get (thank god for modern anthropology).

If you just want to do game emulators, try /r/RetroPie and the official Retro Pie website: http://blog.petrockblock.com/retropie/

You'll need controllers in addition to the pi if you want to play games, I recommend Buffalo Classic for older games or the Logitech F310 if you want to play anything that requires joysticks (PS1 or N64). Xbox 360 wired controllers work great as well if you already have one.

Nothing about the work itself was really all that interesting - we wrote pretty bog standard fleet management, revenue management, and data warehousing software. I do basically the same things now, but for the rental car industry, there are a lot of parallels. What was interesting about this job specifically was learning the history and seeing how much work goes into managing a fleet of millions of containers, which we produced in-house for quality control purposes. It wasn't something I'd ever really thought about before.

I always enjoy learning more about stuff that's normally taken for granted - without intermodal shipping, we wouldn't have the global economy. This book was really eye opening. Malcolm McLean was one of the biggest innovators in the history of the transportation industry.

I was linking to the best bang for buck, but there's other good ones out there.

You want sleek small footprint? Fine. Energy.

Once again, it's still smacking around the Bose for under cost - and I personally think these look nicer still fitting in a small footprint being wall mountable.

I've read and watched both versions, as well, and the ending they describe is exactly what takes place in the movie, including a more brief description of Domingo.

I absolutely recommend the book, too, of course. It has a more cerebral charm in addition to the truly quotable prose. The movie is more of a shared experience.

It's discussed at length in a book called The Science of Interstellar. While it's true that they generated the most detailed and accurate renditions in the process of rendering the black hole in the movie, the version that actually ended up in the movie does take some artistic license, for example by showing a more symmetric event horizon halo than the model predicted, and by coloring the light differently than the model predicted. Great read if you have a moment, lots of beautiful images.

I used to follow him on his channel and around the time he was writing his book, which he welcomed pre-publication critique of on the (now defunct) manpollo.org forums. Ah, those were the days...

There is no doubt in my mind that he put a tremendous amount of effort in to those projects, along with teaching his classes and raising his children, and did get burned out at one or multiple points. Later, I saw that he had moved on from making CC videos to other kinds of progressive videos, and figured that was a good thing for his health and sanity. For a few years there he was something of a one man army, furiously working on all his projects, appearing in multiple national news profiles, and I suspect that all got to be a bit much after a while.

Myself, I am deeply grateful for all his good work, and certainly hope he and his family are doing well. He has earned in triplicate every little bit of good karma that can come his way IMO.

Here you go, this is a start:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Syrian-Civil-War-Centurys-Deadliest-x/dp/1537358650/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1481882657&sr=8-3&keywords=syrian+history

If you google US interest in Syrian pipeline, as well as read some independent journalistic work from Syria you will see this instantly. If I have to prove that an easy supply of oil in the east from Arab nations would undercut Russian gas prices dramatically, that would be like asking to prove 1 + 1 = 2... Supply and demand.

As of US involvement in the rebel forces, I would start at looking up the US financing of the Arab states. As well as the major weapons trade with them. After that I would start looking into the Qatars connection to Al-Nusra. Simply by skimming the surface you can instantly see the involvement from both the US side and the Russia side.

Honestly, you want me to link sources to probably the most known reason why we have the Syrian conflict, besides there isn't one source, its multiple. Seems like you haven't even tried Googling it.

https://www.rt.com/news/370270-msm-agenda-siria-war/
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-secret-stupid-saudi-us-deal-on-syria/5410130
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2016/10/62769.html
https://ftmdaily.com/what-jerry-thinks/whysyria/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_naval_facility_in_Tartus

This would be a great question for /r/asklinguistics. A quick search shows only that someone asked how old it is.

A little bit of searching though brings up this interesting article that states:

>According to McDonald, “cunt” was used to refer to the vagina without any suggestion of vulgarity until roughly the end of the fourteenth century.

Also of interest, there is a book that claims it used to be a term of reverence.

I would ask the linguists though.

>Asking the questions you did means that you don't know philosophy. They were not real questions.

They were certainly real questions, questions very much associated with philosophy. My question was about your standard for evaluating the truth of a philosophy, a question of epistemology. Your first post indicated that the way you evaluate the truth of certain arguments is whether other people, those who are stated experts in philosophy, agree or disagree with them.

I thought this could not be your ultimate standard, so I asked, hoping for a clearer presentation of your view. Instead, I get the answer that either states that the standards of philosophy are readily apparent, or that I am a lost cause for inquiring into your personal metric for evaluating truth.

What I got after that was more examples of appeals to authority and majorities, with no discussion of the content and arguments of Rand's work. What's more, the appeals to authority are false in fact.

> Ayn Rand is not considered a serious scholar by academics, nor by anyone who studies real philosophers like Kant or Sartre.

Allan Gotthelf, who is considered a high-quality thinker and writer on Aristotelian philosophy, has written many books and articles on the topic of Rand and Objectivism in a very positive light.

http://www.amazon.com/Concepts-Their-Role-Knowledge-Philosophical/dp/0822944243

http://www.amazon.com/Metaethics-Egoism-Virtue-Normative-Philosophical/dp/0822944006/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1397776414&sr=1-5

http://www.amazon.com/Ayn-Rand-Philosopher-Wadsworth/dp/0534576257/ref=sr_1_9?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1397776414&sr=1-9


But go ahead, laugh me off.

EDIT: Wrong preposition.

There is a really great book that talks about the streaming and rental service split, as well as how Netflix got to be so popular in the first place. I have been hoping that they make a movie about this, and then not watch it until it came out on Netflix.

i'm so glad i noticed this thread. i'm on the nyc subway a lot and it's always hard to shift your bag around to avoid people standing close by. for a long time i though of getting a "messenger" style bag, but they look square and uncomfortable. i day trip a lot on weekends and explore ethnic areas for gourmet foods and produce to being home and try, so i want a bag that won't make shopkeepers nervous or get me bumped against strangers in narrow store aisle. i just searched around amazon and fell in love with this large male design which looks good on the back, side or front - and bought it; https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07254592G

When you have a book for kids like this existing: Elon Musk and the Quest for a Fantastic Future

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...Can you really be surprised that he's got a bit of an ego?

You can actually change that response through training, though. That's why a lot of airlines have extensive emergency training for their flight attendants.

> "Our students learn by repetition," said a Delta instructor named Kaki. "In an emergency, you don't have time to think — you're going to have to react. And flight attendants who have been in that kind of situation tell us it's true: They never even thought. They just reacted."

If you're interested in learning more about surviving in emergency situations (and the freeze response), I would recommend The Survivors Club, it has some good advice and interesting stories.

Hmm A better Tomorrow is the shit but who am I kidding, you wouldn't know. You're too busy listening to Drake.

You are aware they released an album [you can't afford] (http://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2014/03/26/why-wu-tang-will-release-just-one-copy-of-its-secret-album/) right? Probably not


This conversation. Real hiphop heads would find this shit hilarious. Defenders of Drake come to the rescue touting Wu-tang clan hasn't released anything good in 15 years.

One word: fashion. Different field of fashion, but open up any GQ mag and you'll see ordinary leather combat boots that are $700+. Street fashion is no different. Here is a pair of Adidas Yeezy 350s in my size for $1,700: They're not made any better than any other casual shoe, but they are in demand for their exclusivity.

What it boils down to is simple economics: if the demand is high, so is the price. So when a product or company in the fashion industry convinces the target audience that the item in question is cool, exclusive, or ahead of the curve, it raises the interest and subsequent demand. Supreme has done this by making inroads with the social media modeling scene, street scene, and underground fashion scene. They target city and metro-area people aged ~18-30~ who are likely more receptive to streetwear than to high fashion offerings from a Gucci or Burberry.

> And yes, taken to a logical conclusion, science should be able to describe everything

The irony of this is that logic is explicitly not science, as science is based on evidence and logic is not. They are wholly separate and incompatible "ways of knowing".

Please do some research into epistemology and the theory of knowledge. This would be a good place to start.