"Kept in check" via the same bloodthirsty violence we're seeing now, just under different management. Brilliant.
The same? I'd like to see the numbers of people dying under Saddam's rule, compared to how many people have died under the new government which replaced him.
No doubt, Saddam was a tyrant, but he also provided regional stability. Some heads had to roll to maintain that stability, but was it as many as are dying now?
It seems that the Paper of Record had no record of the broad coalition built by George W. Bush for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, including ground troops from more than a dozen nations, when it attempted to explain the difference between the approaches of Bush and Barack Obama on war in Iraq and now Syria.
Couldn't you just as well say "Fantasy is about considering and exploring the human ramifications when certain aspects of reality are changed"? If you don't care about the science, you're just using sci-fi as window dressing to take you somewhere else, like Avatar is essentially Dances with Wolves with a ton of fancy gadgetry. You can do a historic war movie like 300 or contemporary one like Enemy at the Gates or a futuristic one like Independence Day and it's often the same story of a desperate stand against overwhelming forces with everything in the balance. For that matter, so could many of the great battle scenes in LotR that don't deal with the ring. It's only occasionally the science is an essential plot item and rarer still that it has any real scientific substance. In Star Trek, they just say "beam me up, Scotty" and you're back on the Enterprise, it might just as well have been Gandalf throwing a teleportation spell. That essentially just makes it futuristic fantasy, with sufficiently advanced technology to make it indistinguishable from magic.
Samsung galaxy S2 April 2011, S3 May 2012, S4 April 2013, S5 April 2014.
Apple iPhone 3S July 2008, iPhone 4 October 2011, iPhone 5 September 2012, 6S September 2014.
The Apple market are completely locked into one device, and are forced to wait twice as long on average to be able to upgrade. Therefore I would expect the numbers to be twice as large initially but dying off to a far smaller total than the Samsung devices.
Phillip.
If it's a video, you can see if he is going it correctly. With two factory resetted phones, pressing the on buttons at the same time and seeing which one boots first is not rocket science to do. Lab not needed. Same with launching a browser.
Phillip.
>In the long run, if you strike out at others without cause, it will likely happen to you.
George Bush seems to be living a very nice and comfortable life. Kim Jong * have all lead comfortable lives of great power, with the older two dying of old age.
>Causing pain to others is bad because the response I get is likely to cause me discomfort.
Politicians and CEOs and lawyers and cops do it all the time and it seems to work out quite well for them.
>Money requires relationships.
No, it just requires a job. It's not that hard to get a crappy-to-mediocre-paying job without any personal relationships. Or, you can be like corporate executives or lawyers and just be really good at lying to people, so you have relationships but they're not actually genuine.
>So you can name dozens of people who don't live by caring about others. There are what? almost 8 billion people on the planet?
The dozens of people I can name are actually running the planet. It doesn't look like this system of yours is working all that well.
You forgot young earth creationists, probably the most popular conspiracy theory around. Evolution, geology, paleoclimatology, dendrochronology, astronomy, radiocarbon dating, fossil record and probably a dozen other sciences I forget all a hoax. A false flag operation by either god himself as a test of faith or the devil playing tricks, you don't have to go to the 1% nutters - who mostly lack sanity - to find total rejection of evidence, science and logic.
You're not going to be around that long for the long-term good of society to matter much to you.
>1) If I cause pain to others, or believe that this is justifiable, then others quite likely will treat me the same
Politicians and CEOs seem to get along just fine causing pain to others without suffering any negative repercussions. They just make sure to have some select cronies who assist them in fucking over everyone else.
>2) If everyone lived according to the ideals of "care about is your own personal survival and comfort, and nothing else.", society would collapse.
Yet we happily put people just like that into the highest positions of power over us.
"I've seen it. It's rubbish." -- Marvin the Paranoid Android
