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Comment Re:not sure this really makes much sense (Score 1) 950

Isn't it though?

Nope.

It is a competition.

Nope.

The symbolism of millions of sperm/one egg directly carries through to the way dating works.

Oh hell nope. Look: the animal kingdom has a mind bogglingly vast array of mating and rearing behaviours, even though for the most part eggs are more scarse than sperm. And I mean truly hugely insanely vast and certainly beyond your imagination to conceive of. Fortunatley there are many articles written about the subject for your perusal. If glib generalisations summed up the situation well, then there wouldn't be such a range.

Women are ultimately the arbiters of choice.

Again, no. Every guy who has ever shrugged off the advances of a woman disproves your point.

Comment Re:It's also just stuck in the past (Score 2) 950

You notice many animals follow a similar structure.

Depends on which animals. The range is vast and encompasses quite astonishingly diverse behaviours. It ranges from ones where the males do all the caring to ones with an almost equal share of work (many birds, especially those that mate for life), ones where the work share is equal but are ruled by a queen (naked mole rats) to ones where the (sterile) females do all the protecting (ants) to ones where the male is nothing more than a pair of parasitic gonads with no independent life (anglerfish). And then there's just the fire and forget ones where neither gender lifts a finger, fin or tentacle after the eggs are fertilised. And then then there's the ones that can switch genders depending on the circumstance: some fish shoals are all male/female except for the lead female/male. When the lead dies, the head male/female switches gender to female/male. And then there's the hemaphoradites. At that point things get really weird.

Anyway other points, yeah pretty much.

Comment Re:Ignores the maginal price of airline tickets (Score 1) 515

Those 2014 profit reports were from a period when fuel costs were still high. Their profits should be even higher now.

Basically the ticket price wars have ended. Southwest Airlines cheap hedged fuel ended and they couldn't undercut everyone any more. The airline companies have developed better load balancing strategies.

Comment Re:Of course, there's this (Score 1) 176

Just in Iraq and Kuwait alone...

BP PLC, Exxon Mobil Corp,
Royal Dutch Shell, British Petroleum Co. Plc, Chevron, Getty Oil Co., Gulf Oil, Japan's Arabian Oil Co. , Mobil Corp, Shell International Petroleum Co. Ltd., Texaco .

You do remember the oil fields burning right?
You do remember the U.S. shooting dozens of million dollar a shot missiles per day for weeks to defend oil interests right?

Alternative energy will greatly reduce terrorism incentives and more importantly, funding.

Comment Re:Wasn't there an Apache helicopter simulator... (Score 5, Interesting) 83

My (5 story) building houses several commercial aviation sims, everything from MD-88s to 777s, and supposedly (I have only been here about 3 months) if you take them into a stall or crash it can shake the entire building. In fact my coworker that sits across from me jsut today paused for a second and said that it sounded like someone crashed a sim, and they are 2 floors below us.

Comment Re:$70 max (Score 1) 515

Infrastructure helps GDP, and that is good. However trying to maximise worker productivity for its own sake is pointless. The world isn't black and white and isn't actually filled with dichotomies.

Well, I'd say it is, because the reason those jobs concentrate in London rather than being distributed more evenly across the country, is because your government pours large amounts of subsidies for infrastructure, companies, and leisure activities on London, mostly to attract companies and rich folks. Those policies create economic inequality and enormously high real estate prices.

The government is spending on infrastructure because people keep pouring in and keep threatening to overwhelm the infrastructure. The insane property [rices come from foreign investment and the banking industry.

Jobs breed jobs. People move to London because of the jobs. Companies come here because the workers are here. So people come here for the jobs. It's self reinforcing.

Despite your apparently shitty living conditions, you're still privileged

your premise seems to be that london is magic so anyone living there is privilidged. That's just insane and completely at odds with a little thing I call "reality".

Comment Re:Lieberman 2.0 (Score 1) 950

Like advertisements, right? Those one or two ads you see don't make you buy the gizmo because you are a sophisticated consumer who doesn't pay attention to ads.

And yet, there are entire marketing departments who can show you precisely what their ad dollars bring in. Why should you assume VGs have no effect until they reach some unspecified saturation level far above any ads you'll be subjected to in the course of a day?

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