No, that's contained in typo-ience.

There are people in this world who actually like other people. They take every opportunity they can to meet and talk to people. So what if that checkout clerk is "only" a clerk in a menial job. Who cares? Not a people person.

And you're right. It's the arrogant cynic in you.

Yeah, because driving a tank down the street wouldn't attract police attention at all...,

Whoosh yourself. It appears your sarcasm detector has misfired.

As someone who spent a decade in active drug addiction I can say from experience that this research has it right. The people who drink highly caffienated drinks on a daily basis over a period of time are developing a psychological, and physical, addiction to a mind altering substance. They drink massive amounts of caffience for the buzz it gives them. And they come to rely on that to get them to an altered mental state.

That altered state is the goal. And that is what addiction is all about. People get to depend on that altered state, and that is the psychological part of addiction, and actually the worst part of addiction. Why? Because the physical addiction is fairly easy to break compared to the mental habit of relying on something outside of yourself to make you feel good. That mental habit is extremely hard to break. That memory that feeling good is only a substance use away.

That buzz off caffiene is a gateway drug effect. Scoff if you want, but as an addict I can tell you that is how an addict thinks. I've been clean for 25 years now and the urge is less than it used to be, but that thought still crosses my mind when I'm having a really bad day.

Hogwash. I started off on Windows 98 and a year or two later tried Debian Woody. All my computer experience up to that time was Windows, yet Gnome2 was far more intuitive to me than Windows. Linux overall has always made more sense than Windows to me. The directory structure, the bash shell, no idiotic registry to corrupt, etc... all made more sense to me from the very start.

I run XFCE4 today because that Gnome2 interface still makes far more sense to me than Gnome3 or any Windows gui. Change for the sake of change is bad. Change for the sake of being more like Windows is even worse.

And just what is "non-white science"? Describe it.

It's odd, I always thought that the black, white, yellow, red, and brown races were all just a part of a bigger race, the human race. We all have far more in common than we have in differences. Who cares what color a person's skin is? It's the content of their character that matters. In other words, the surface is of little value. It's what's inside that counts.

After reading a bunch of your posts, you seem like the kind of person who runs around looking for things to take offense at. Here's a clue. You will always find someone who will disagree with you. Stop thinking it is a personal attack on you just because they disagree. It's a little thing called life, and life doesn't always fit pre-concieved ideas.

Really? If Google had asked for input on eugenics it would have been inappropriate to post a person's belief about the subject? Why?

Google asked for input on the subject Damore commented on, so why was it inappropriate to post his ideas on the subject? Just because you don't like his ideas?

Just about as impossible as biological differences not affecting life and career choices. .

I have worked for people that are cheap just for cheap's sake. However, they are that way because they do not understand how much they actually pay for being cheap. However, non-business owning individuals are often the same way. They are so cheap they cut off their nose to spite their own face.

Greed is a problem for all of humanity, not just for business owners for it is greed that causes people to be so cheap they cheat themselves. It arises from human nature. Everyone seems to want something for nothing. Otherwise politicians would get nowhere telling people they are going to give them "free" stuff that those same people end up paying for with taxes.

If I still had some moderator points I would mod this up.

Who cares what someone else's user name is? Only the petty and the spiteful.

You have a couple of fallacies in your thinking. The first one? Governments create the marketplace. Governments do not create the marketplace. It exists because people need to live. They produce, buy, sell, barter, etc... because it is how one gets what one needs to survive. Government has nothing to do with that. Government only gets involved because it wants to control what people do. ln other words, the marketplace is a result of human behavior and is a reflection of it. If you have a group of 2 or more people living outside of a government structure there will be, not may be, a marketplace. Why? Because a single person cannot do everything needed to survive. He needs to trade skills, produce, labor, etc... with his neighbors to survive. Economics is, in all reality, the study of human action. Not human motivation, but what people actually do because actual events can be studied and quatified, motivations are much more obscure and subjective. Ludwig von Mises calls it praexology, at least I think that is the correct spelling.

The book I recommended to you on money and banking in the US is a compilation of studies. The first section is on early US history of money and banking which is the section I recommended as it has the same title as the entire compilation. Then a section on the formation of the Federal Reserve. Then other sections on different topics. While they are all related you can read one part and get a complete understanding of that part all by itself.

The fact that you reject ideas just because they do not fit your ideology is not good. Sorry to have to say it, but it does reflect a degree of closemindedness. The only way to really learn is to open your mind to all ideas. You end up with a much greater understanding of issues and much greater wisdom. That said, you still disagree agreeably. I like having this conversation with you, and I cannot say I enjoy very many of my conversations with people from the political left. They often turn into nothing but ad hominen attacks from those who disagree with me. This, you have not done.

I would also recommend "The Road to Serfdom" by Hayek. This is probably one of the most important books of the 20th century as it lays out in clear, concise detail why socialism ends up in what it does. Hayek does a masterful job of documenting what he says. And what he says is the opposite of what you have heard all the way through your academic years, and the opposite of what you will hear from the media. This book has had a profound effect on my understanding of political and economic issues. Even if it doesn't change your mind it will challenge your political beliefs and understandings.

I thought much the same way you do when I was your age. The reason for it was that I had not really studied ecomomics or political philosophy from all sides. Thus I was pretty limited in my understanding of the issues as I had not been exposed to competing ideas. I accepted what I knew because I had not studied anything else. I started reading all sides of the issues at least a decade ago. I've read Marxist thought, libertarian thought, conservative thought, Keynesian (Marxist) economics, and Austrian school economics. I have yet to read Friedman, but only because I haven't been able to afford any of his books as yet.

What is your second fallacy? That the economic principles I'm talking about have never been used successfully. Study the depression of 1920 and 1921. Never heard of it? There is a reason for that. What reason? It was over so fast it was breathtaking and it violates all of what academia says must happen so they do not point to it other than to puzzle why something other than what they think actually worked. Then they conclude some pretty off-the-wall things about that. Why was it so short lived even though the stock market dropped more than it did in 1929? Because Warren G. Harding did the opposite of what all the Keynesian "experts" say the government has to do during economic downturns. His actions, or should I say, his doing nothing, violated all the "rules" the Fed and the so-called experts say must be done to lift an economy out of a slump. What brought on the depression? The end of WWI and the economic slowdown that naturally occurs coming out of a war economy. The wartime economy produced high wages and prices brought about by government deficit spending that could not be sustained during peace time. Those high wages and prices were inflation arising out of all the debt the government created. So what happened wihen the natural contraction happened afterwards? That is the story. A really good video on this is at the following link. Very much worth the time to watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I would also recommend a couple of modern day black economists: Walter E. Williams and Thomas Sowell. Their writings on liberty and society are very, very good. They both give great insight into poltical thought and how it gets shaped in the US. They write well and their books and articles are fascinating.

One more personal note. I looked at your account details and from that your resume. I knew I was talking to someone who was pretty smart, but I have to say I'm pretty impressed with your resume and what you have done already. I just wish I had had those kinds of opportunities when young. I'm not jealous or intimidated, just impressed. You have done well. Way to go.

As a side note, I too suffer from severe headaches. What I have found that works for me is to eat foods highly spiced with cayenne pepper. The reason cayenne works is that the active ingredient in cayenne is capsicum which is a natural pain reliever. Not a single over-the-counter or prescription medicine has ever worked for me, but cayenne does. I can have a really bad headache and within 15 minutes of eating highly spiced foods the headache is gone. Works every time for me.

There are more peppers than cayenne peppers that work for me. Habeneros work. Also, what ever pepper is found in authentic Thai cooking works really well too. So, if you like spicy foods you might try eating some next time you feel a migraine coming on. May not work for you like it does for me, but cayenne/hot_peppers do not have the same isses all NSAIDs do. Other than the burning sensation, which in time you get used to and actually develop a taste for, the peppers are side-effect free.

This also works for me on arthritis pain too. The days my knees are so bad that I can barely walk I eat a spicy meal and in no time at all my pain levels are reduced 90% or so. I go from hobbling to walking in less than a half hour.

So why then is a political problem being blamed on business? The problem looks to me to be a problem of corrupt politicians, if it truly does exist.
Get rid of the corrupt politicians and the problem goes away to a great extent.

This is why I am in favor of limited government. The more power we give politicians, the more power corrupt politicians have over our lives. That to me is the underlying problem.