Comment 97% of used car dealers agree (Score 1) 1105
97% of used car dealers agree this is a honey of a deal, and 97% of those would gladly take credit.
Self-interest creates a bias factor.
97% of used car dealers agree this is a honey of a deal, and 97% of those would gladly take credit.
Self-interest creates a bias factor.
A dump is conveniently ambiguous. It also guarantees that 99.999% of us will not read it, and those who do, will skim.
But a Machiavellian, like any true politician, does it for his own sake, not for theirs -- and Machiavelli thus talked about how to reconcile this fundamental selfishness with the need to keep the people's support.
This is what I was alluding to.
SirGarlon doesn't understand, and when he says:
the closest relevant chapter in _the Prince_ is
I realize that he's projecting -- this was the only thing he could find that he thought was relevant, and he mistook that for reality at large. An unfortunate mistake.
In the process, he missed about a dozen more relevant quotations. That's why you read more than the Cliff's Notes, kids!
If government is allowing you to see these "leaks," they're benefiting in some way from the environment that results.
To assume that government is actually constrained by such things is to assume benevolence in government; perhaps it is most beneficial for them that you think this is all they have to reveal.
It's not paranoia to realize that in an age of utter selfishness, people will hoard power and use it deviously. What would Machiavelli do?
I dunno, release about a billion documents unrelated to what he's actually trying to hide.
Why do americans put the metal genre under the "rock" tag?
Not all of us do, and in fact, I'm very glad to meet someone else who agrees with me that this is an important distinction.
Metal is its own genre, composed by its own standards. It emerged from rock (specifically, prog rock, soundtracks to horror films, loud hard rock and early punk combined) but it is not rock.
If you're up for some analytical historical data, would you read The Heavy Metal F.A.Q.?
Cathedral's founding vocalist, Lee Dorrian, was one of the original vocalists of Napalm Death and can be heard on Scum and From Enslavement to Obliteration.
Most people consider Cathedral to be doom metal.
Variables don't; constants aren't.