Comment: Re:Basic economics (Score 1) 816
The invisible hand is giving you the finger.
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The invisible hand is giving you the finger.
I was gonna say "zombies," but, yeah.
Government work kills people on the inside.
Even just leaving the IT department unmanned with the systems running might be enough.
You can see where they got the idea of "harmony" - throughout most of history, it was a pretty evenly-matched fight.
You can escape taxes, but then death will be right on your heels.
When I was learning to use GIMP, it helped to think about how much money I was saving by not using Photoshop. Just a tip for the GP on staying motivated.
Likewise the cost, inflexibility and PITA factor of Windows helped motivate me to learn Linux, but that's another story.
You may dismiss this as fantasy created by the "copyright industry", but you'll wonder what happened when every new movie you see has a Hindi song and dance number at crucial plot points.
If it makes every action movie come out like Endhiran, I say go for it!
With that in mind, I'd say it's likely that homosexuals in the past might have "married straight" and had children for purely practical/utilitarian purposes (maybe even a gay guy and a lesbian having kids together).
Well who says homosexuality is genetic? You're assuming that, and there's no evidence that this is the case AFAIK.
There are some theories that homosexuals would be advantageous to a society as surrogate caregivers though, which may explain why it hasn't been "corrected" by the evolutionary process, if that's possible.
I wonder what homosexuality rates are like in creatures that share zero child-rearing responsibility, vs. intelligent creatures that form societies and do share responsibility...
Yep, this is why I think it's hilarious when women think most men want polygamy and consider the practice bad for women and good for men.
Thank your lucky stars that polygamy is illegal in most places, guys, or all the women would be married to the richest guy in town. The rich lifestyle of the husbands cheating rampantly and the wives looking the other way is just the closest they can legally get to rich guys keeping harems.
Maybe it's backwards to say that I like that a form of consensual adult relationship is illegal, but don't kid yourself, it's good for all us dudes.
Shedenhelm's Law: All trails have more uphill sections than they have downhill sections.