What testing utility did you use?

Who in their right mind would spend 30 minutes in a store? You don't have to do that Europe. Most of your shopping consists of little artisan shops that provide local produce, cheese, wine, meats, and takes you only a minute to order. You then proceed on your way unless you want to socialize.

In Europe, you can buy fresh homemade pasta, the best cheese in the world, great wine without taxation, the best chocolate in the world. If you live in Italy, you can stop for gelato on your way home.

If you live your life going from point A to point B, you will find it severely lacking. You miss out on the good stuff. You will consequently have fewer friends, less sex, and fewer thoughts.

Case in point: When I lived in Europe, I got a little something extra from the baker's cute daughter. :)

Yes it can, and it is. In France, you pick up your daily baguette, still warm, for 1 euro. Made fresh with local ingredients. You don't have to spend time parking, waiting to check out. The entire exchange, unless you want to socialize, will take you ten seconds. I would rather walk 30 meters on a cobblestone road to my local shop, surrounded by thousand year-old architecture, then spend 30 seconds in a car suffocated in concrete and traffic.

In a 3 block radius (small European blocks), you will have your baker, your butcher, your fromager, your wineshop, and sometimes even your own local chocolatier. The food too is not even comparable for the crap that passes in the U.S. In Europe, you can be relatively poor and live like a king.

No. I wouldn't want to spend my time elsewhere. Shopping in a European hill town or city is easier, faster, cheaper, and social. Almost everything you purchase is locally grown, locally made, and locally sold. It's a completely different way of living that Americans don't understand. In essence, it *is* living and is just as an enjoyable process as cooking and eating.

In Europe, if you like to bake, you can actually make a healthy profession out of it.

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You can be selective with who you work with, but don't burn bridges. If the interviewer is not capable of accessing the position or your capabilities, then the politely and assertively ask to speaking with someone who can.

They're literally doing God's work.

The problem with religion, nay the world, is thinking one's own will is the will of God's.

This is an interesting conclusion. Could you point to examples that let you reach such a generalization?

In the U.S., there were a lot of intellectual movements in the mid-1800s to early 1900s. This was when the common man actually read literature for insight, entertainment, and enrichment, and then discussed what they read with their fellowman.

... or, more likely, anyone who holds a differing political view can be labelled as a dissenter.

So you say iMessage? I would not be the least bit surprised if NSA had access to that, too.

This is probably the reason iMessage/iChat doesn't support third-party encryption tools like OTR. Apple used to offer encryption for the mac.com subscribers, but I believe that has since been removed.

Apple isn't alone on this, anything made by Microsoft is suspected of having a backdoor.

Georgism is just one form of left-libertarianism. There have been others who have different ideas on the appropriation of resources and property. Steiner–Vallentyne is another POV...

Recommended reading: The Origins of Left-Libertarianism: An Anthology of Historical Writings.

I know many highly talented artists, actors, physicists, biologists, and writers, but they can't find a livable wage. Where are these jobs you speak of?

Most resort to spending decades poor until they are finally recognized.

This. It wouldn't have to be socialist, but it seems there would need to be a full-fledged welfare system to ensure an individual's percentage of wealth and opportunity.

You have been unable to articulate and support a position. Yes, my IQ is higher than Stephen Hawking's. Surprise, not all intelligent people are physicists. Just because you were unable to understand my "ramblings", does not make it nonsense.

You created at least two dichotomies: natural and supernatural, religion and science, and insinuated natural law as being empirical -- that which has yet to be proven/verified with mathematical logic must not exist.

"Wanting" things to happen is not the same as "believing" something will happen. And yes, it's all well documented. Google it or go to your local university's library. You completely ignored my other example that's well discussed in metaphysics. Stop nit-picking to suit your agenda, and stop attacking people who are being friendly.

You might want to ask Einstein where he got his general theory of relativity. A physicist is only useful when he's properly educated in poetics and philosophy.

Again, stay in school.

You do not understand Markov's chain.

Again, your insults are in vain. I had to correct your every irrational dichotomy. Your intelligence is revealed when you make this a personal affair. Glad we got to the heart of the matter.

my IQ = 220
your IQ = 120 at best.

How's that for your dumb thick head? The disparity in our intellect alone is comparing Einstein with a monkey.

Suck it.

Careful there, it's supported by over three schools of philosophical thought, quantum mechanics, and every poet.

Stay in school. It seems to be the only hope for hopelessness.