Comment Re:prices have dropped 300%.... (Score 0) 347
More and less are fine; it's just that ignorant and/or emotional people (and the advertisers that love them) love saying that things are 2x better when they're merely 200% as good.
More and less are fine; it's just that ignorant and/or emotional people (and the advertisers that love them) love saying that things are 2x better when they're merely 200% as good.
You aren't. Measure better next time.
You forgot to uncrop.
I'm going to have to go with the latter.
Violence is never a legal response to a nonviolent provocation.
Unless you're the government, of course.
Idealism is nice, but in the end one CAN weigh huge numbers of deaths against "dictator-enforced stability" if one wants. Most people prefer to live and hope for the future than to die now for nothing useful (i.e. die in current Iraq due to all sorts of violence that does not move Iraq towards "democracy"). Let the idealists choose the times of and reasons for their own deaths if they wish, while the rest choose to live on and hope.
Human rights don't mean shit when you're dead.
That should count as a suicide, too (as well as a murder), due to acceptance on the character's part in spite of having superhuman powers, including foreknowledge of the event, which could've let him at least make a strong attempt to not be killed. That is, of course, assuming that the character had free will. Lalala...
1609.344 meters (to use the CORRECT NUMBER)
Who says you can necessarily get affordable health insurance if you already have financially significant medical problems (or appear at all likely to gain them in the future (various conditions can be expected to worsen over time))?
Truthfulness.
Yes! Ban television!!!
GP was off by a factor of about ten, so the U.S. is instead around 30 times as rich. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Africa [wikipedia.org]
Africa is actually about a tenth as rich per capita as you just claimed it was. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Africa
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.