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It doesn't matter what we call them, but it does matter how many sets of competing standards we have. You are skipping steps in your argument, and your claim that 'a human is going to fuck it up anyways' is just negative bullshit. There are clearly ways to reduce the chance of that - one is to move away from having two competing systems.
And your argument in turn implies that there's no point in ever trying to be systematically consistent to reduce errors, because
People will continue to make mistakes. In some cases, the existence of confusing doubles standards increases the chances of that happening, as well as introducing pointless costs. Measurement is a wonderful example of a natural monopoly, and we should prefer (open) standards.
Logically false. You are saying that the existence of a different measuring system is the cause of the human failure to differentiate. It was a human failure, what you are asking for is to dumb it down so humans cant fail in that way anymore. I assure you, humans will find some other way to foul it up, no matter how many rubber bumpers you put on things.
By thwarting Satan's plan God enabled a pure bloodline from Adam to Christ to remain, providing free salvation for everyone who accepts Christ's sacrifice for their sin.
Racial purity, the most important of all the virtues!
And killing a bunch of children is certainly more reasonable than just using your God-like powers to spirit the slaves away to the land of milk and honey . . . .
This sort of thing is why the Old Testament is fun to read and makes for good movies, but is an unreliable source of moral guidance.
Where do get me some of this! Can they deliver it to my house via Webvan?
No, but I think Kozmo.com carries Instagram, and will bring it on a bike with some free ice cream....
I'm betting those who use Google Voice never see one of those "You need to add your mobile phone number to your Google account" intersitials (with a tiny line under it that basically says "I do not want to add my number"). Sure, ostensibly it's to "protect your account", but it's a real number.
I use Google Voice and still get that interstitial.
Presently, US law outright forbids scientific study of these remedies. I believe they need to be studied so that there's conclusive evidence of what works and what doesn't work. And what we discover does work should be allowed in practice. The world of academia can help tremendously with that.
Bullshit. The NIH has been giving away enormous sums of money to study this crap, with the result that we now understand much better than we need to exactly how people come to convince themselves and others of the efficacy of specific placebos with magical and/or pseudoscience window-dressing.
"Just as likely" that retailers will cut prices? You're kidding, right?
If shops could raise prices without any effect on sales, they would do that constantly. While I admire your cynicism, I despise your naivete.
I'm sorry, but that didn't make sense to me. The point of copyright is to allow the creator control so as to make a living. That's the further encouragement. First time you starve, everyone understands that. Subsequent iterations should get progressively easier if your work is desirable.
That's not true. The point of granting exclusive rights through copyrights and patents is to encourage the creation of works which contribute to the overall good of society. We don't care about individual creators past the need to encourage their creations, and further, due to the transferability of intellectual property, any post-creation changes to copyright law would not only provide no additional incentive for creation, but would benefit copyright OWNERS, not copyrighted material's CREATORS (though I concede significant overlap).
Think of it like this: intellectual property is a bonus you receive at the creation of a good which is very cheap to copy. Changing the value of this bonus UP, retroactively, costs society for no societal goal. Changing it down is similar to breach of contract. There are strong arguments for fixing the length of the term at the time of copyright.
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