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The prospect of immortality is quite awesome (in the bad way) if you think about it. I have seen posts here about outliving anyone you have ever known and loved. That's alright, I guess it can be done. It would take its toll, certainly. But still... I have seen here posts about learning all there is...

I mean no disrespect for the plight of poor communities in the US. Poverty is indeed a scourge, regardless of the country into which it chooses to sink its foul fangs. Nevertheless, please do pardon me if I temper my sympathy with concerns of our own... Even the poorest of the US States (Vermont's G...

It's been tried already. Rather unsuccessfully, I might add. See here Many years ago, attempts were made to teach chimpanzees spoken language. Hayes and Hayes (1952) gave Vicki, their young chimpanzee, intensive training in language, but she only learnt to produce four sounds and unfortunately none ...

It never ceases to amaze me how this is even an issue in the US. And at a university, of all places. It's even more apalling considering that my country has an overwhelming Roman Catholic majority (over 80%) and such things would be pretty much unthinkable here, even at "confessional" priv...

It means that these peoples' sense of social norms is warped. This means that they are not going to feel traumatized by what happened until they discover the clash with social norms, and it also means that they are more likely to feel that this behaviour is somehow acceptable. BTW, the data does no...

I agree that both psychology and psyquiatry need to get faaaar more scientific. There are aspects, however, about both that are highly scientific. Namely, studies conducted on hundreds of subjects (people) over longitudinal or transversal periods of time (sometimes several decades), carefully consid...

"America Turns Into Somalia For Some Reason Because Ha Ha Fuck America Am I Right: The Movie" makes like forty bucks at the box office, and the guy who greenlit it is fired in disgrace. But it might make up for such domestic losses (the controversy potential notwithstanding) with earnings...

I put my old Mexican CP (postal code, pretty much the same as your American ZIP) and it worked as well... Seemingly, they don't care much about such things.

Voted.

I'll keep voting every day, and post it to my facebook so others know.

Good luck!

What's this all about? Foreign armed forces have already come to help the US in times of dire need (at least I know ours have , not that long ago). And yes, they were invited. And I believe there were no significant incidents involving paranoid or overzealous patrioteers . And also, the fact bears r...

Provided the DC Universe cities with counterparts in the real world have about the same amount of people, then at least the US would have to have some extra population (oh, and don't forget the population in Smallville :P ) But that would be true only about the US (which, albeit difficult to underst...

Oh, I think I've seen those. Ore something quite similar (to the Vancouver Sunset picture). Where I live, at least twice in a 10 year period I saw what I call "green days", where the sky is kind of overcast, and the air is filled with this eerie greenish-yellow glow. I was thinking it migh...

Okay, my examples are not good enough. Close, but not quite good enough, for the reasons Akhlut kindly pointed out. Nevertheless, the subjacent reasoning still stands. Why is black, inner-city culture not as good as the culture of old and rich white guys? I'm going to say that Public Enemy, KRS-One,...

Is that a joke, Akkleptos, or are you trolling this thread? Good question. I just wanted to say it works for me. But, as of late, my metabolism seems to have slowed down a lot. So what I do now is eating half a portion of whatever I used to eat before (e.g. instead of two full plates, I eat only on...

If Akkleptos has any additions, corrections, or differing perspectives from the Mexican viewpoint I urge him to add them to the discussion. I tried hard to be objective but it can be difficult what with living in the US and being steeped in a biased viewpoint all my life. Thanks. I have very little...

In Mexico, as in much of Latin America, Marxism became heavily tied up with the idea of land reform. With the majority of the population living as peasants and tenant farmers on land owned by wealthy individuals, the most resonant message communists could spread among the peasantry was that of redi...

Only a certain subset of people will be able to actually read the NEJM, though, as I don't think most people who speak English can readily deduce things like "anoxia results from CO inhalation, as it binds more strongly to hemoglobin than to oxygen." Okay, bad example. Take instead Newswe...

The only way they could be that ignorant is if they adhere to some version of Maoism, which puts political goals ahead of industrial ones. That might be it. I must admit that my notions of the different flavours of socialism and comunism are very rusty at best. In any case, these people adhere to a...

Good, good. Now define the exact difference between a language and a dialect (Valencia and Catalonia are probably very interested, and also doing this will make you the most famous linguist of your era, so hop to it so I can incorporate your paper into my work). Ah, the regionalism card. The thing ...

1) Marxists hate the creation of wealth That's just silly, of course. I could have been clearer, though: ignorant Marxists -the kind we get here in Mexico, anyway- won't admit that wealth has to be created, rather than just distributed (with all which that entails). 2) the american culture is inher...

For Halloween, last year (1989... oh, wait, sorry, 2010):





And for Christmas...

I happen to be on a weight-loss mode... And this is what I do: Wake up between 2 and 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Eat whatever greasy stuff I can find in the fridge (hot dogs, frozen tacos, pastor-style meat, instant ramen, you name it)... Go out, run with the girls (Amber, My Weimaraner [please, do ...

Given the fact that a common language across Spain, France and Italy facilitates communication, you would describe this development as a degeneration. Do you really think you can justify that? That's just idiotic. I, myself, am a native Spanish speaker. The thing is that degeneration led to the cre...

Seriously, would it kill people to say 'don't use passive voice because it's less engaging and diverts attention from the subject,' instead of 'because I said so, dammit?' Exactly! The point is that Passive Voice belongs in some places, like scientific articles (as Alyrium rightly put it) and doesn...

A student of mine asked me something that closely relates to this... I was explaining why things such as "ain't", "gonna" and "wanna" are considered slang, and not proper English. She argued (very intelligently, for a girl of 14, I must admit) that languages are like li...