John Cuthber

It is now.

No, if you check it was more a matter of someone citing stats to try to show that Capitalism isn't rampant (who could that have been?) started me on the path to show that ... perhaps it is.

Yes, it is. The shape of the income distribution may complicate things, as my the provision of a welfare state (and even the definition of "poverty". As I said, there's a better way to spot unrestrained Capitalism- the fact that the Rich are getting richer and the Poor are getting poorer. It ought to be one of the roles of government to restrict the extent to which that happens. At the moment very few governments seem to be doing so. This may be because most so-called democracies are de facto plutocracies. What you failed to show was that there was a causal link between his skills as an actor and his arrogance. Yes, he's both a good actor and he's arrogant. But one DOES NOT FOLLOW FROM THE OTHER, and that's what non sequitur means. So, can you show that he's good because he's smug? Isn't it at least as likely that he's smug because he's good?

For a rate that should be zero, that's pretty poor. The unregulated nature of capitalism is shown up better by this statistic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_United_States#/media/File:Income_inequality_panel_-_v1.png Again, that's a non sequitur. Good, yet humble, actors exist.

On the basis that Olivier's arrogance was what people liked - which doesn't make much sense* you can say that arrogance isn't all bad. (Please note that's not what you had actually said). And even then it only holds if you can show that more people wouldn't have liked him better if he wasn't such a smug guy. Just saying a bunch of people were arrogant isn't grounds for saying it's a good thing. I could point out that Churchill was a heavy drinking cigar smoker- that doesn't make it a good thing in its own right, does it? Well, in much the same way, pointing out that he was arrogant doesn't indicate that arrogance is a good thing So, in fact, what you said was a non sequitur. * What Olivier was famous for doing is pretending to be someone else, so his claim to fame is entirely independent of what his own natural persona might be.

Non sequitur. Nice straw man.

Where do you plan to get them from? Trying to use deep lying electrons to create useful energy is like trying to use an underground pool to create hydro-electric power. There's no "down" for the water to go

I can think of better jokes. Did he actually create wealth, or did he take it from others? Often "massive cost savings" means reduced employment somewhere along the line.

Only when paid to do so.

There's a flip side to that; jokes that only make sense in a language other than that in which they are written. Un petit d'un petit S'étonne aux Halles Un petit d'un petit Ah! degrés te fallent Indolent qui ne sort cesse Indolent qui ne se mène Qu'importe un petit Tout gai de Reguennes. Which looks like (fairly bad) French poetry meaning something like A child of a child Is surprised at the Market A child of a child Oh, degrees you needed! Lazy is he who never goes out Lazy is he who is not led Who cares about a little one All happy with Reguennes but which is remarkably funny when a natural speaker of French reads it to an English audience who instantly recognise it as this nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty Sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty Had a great fall. All the king's horses And all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty Together again. (I have pinched most of that from the wiki page) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mots_d'Heures

Correct, and correct. So, it's back to you Sensei...

Sometimes we blur the edges of the rules. In any event, here's a question inspired by that clip.. Are clever people more likely to use sarcasm and irony in their humour? (And, for the benefit of any Americans reading this IRONY, the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. "‘Don't go overboard with the gratitude,’ he rejoined with heavy irony" synonyms: sarcasm, sardonicism, dryness, causticity, sharpness, acerbity, acid, bitterness, trenchancy, mordancy, cynicism; More a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result. plural noun: ironies "the irony is that I thought he could help me" synonyms: paradox, paradoxical nature, incongruity, incongruousness, peculiarity "the irony of the situation hit her" a literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the full significance of a character's words or actions is clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character. noun: dramatic irony; plural noun: tragic irony

I'm not sure how that would be relevant.But, if it was always true, how come I vote for a political party that will raise my taxes? Why does anyone give to charity?

OK, I will bite. In what language(s) are they funny? Bother! I just realised- this is the jokes thread, I'd better add a joke OK Q. When is a door not a door? A. When it's ajar.

What do you mean by that?

Some essential oils are denser than water (for example clove oil) , others are lighter. (for example tea tree oil) That will make a difference if you are steam distilling them.

http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Belgium

In principle, any polypeptide will hydrolyse in the presence of water to give the amino acids. I'm not sure what electricity has to do with this.

If I was that bothered , I'd post a retraction or correction. (Though that might draw attention to it).

Do you mean electrolysis?

What do you mean by " react on ... electricity"?

I seem to have missed that my position is what you say it is. Nope. You don't seem to understand that strawmanning doesn't work on science sites. Since I never put forward the position you are ascribing to me, people are going to recognise that one of us is telling the truth... What I have pointed out is that your tacit claim- that your guns can't kill people- is absurd.

"A" seems to be the instructions for shooting kids in a classroom except that, in order to deal with "B" you need to make sure you get close. I doubt an mass shooter would not recognise that. I also doubt that people reading this will fail to spot that you have gone from "guns don't't kill: people do" to simply "my guns don't kill people". That's the problem; they can and (more generally) they do.

Why would you want to?