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Maybe, but there is however a definite and dramatic link between economic transformation and fertility rate, which means indirectly: population. As to world industrializes fertility rates shrink, and eventually so will population. "Cuts" will not have to be made, such an idea is ridiculous.

Localized overpopulation, like in India, will happen. World wide overpopulation, will not. Just more than half of the world's countries are even growing in population anymore, the rest are at replacement rate or losing population. The median fertility rate is Columbia at 2.56, which is just .46 above that of replacement. Allowing for fertility rates to drop due to industrialization and post-industrialization, the world population should stabilize eventually, and probably start even further in the future start to drop.

He's right, overpopulation is another alarmist misconception. The US's fertility rate has moved to barely replacement, some states are even decreasing in population. Western Europe is annually losing population, countries that are not industrialized yet will have higher fertility rates until they industrialize, in which their fertility rates will drop, and population will level off. In theory, when all countries have been industrialized and move into the post-industrial phase the world should be losing population as a whole. But that will not be for a very, very long time.

LivePlasma.com does something similar. Making some type of graphic showing what artists are similar to one that you type in, it's pretty cool too.

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Truly, if we could change as a society and not put so much value on watching these sports than it would be less profitable and they would be paid less. It's our own doing.

Beat it in under a week (used code for all weapons a couple times ). What now?

It seems like if he ever did fall asleep he would just lapse into a comma. My friend stayed up for 72 hours, he was pretty messed up. I could only make it through one night, the next day I fell asleep (I think). It was probably the closest to being intoxicated I've been It's was weird, I don't remember much from the next day. I had gaps in my memory, I was pretty messed up. I guess I need sleep more than some people

I didn't know that, cool.

Aren't "`" and "~" on the same key? "Shift" + "`" = "~" Anyway, last night I was trying some things, and I created a new shortcut from the file and added the "-console." I opened in from that shortcut and not through STEAM. It worked, but STEAM no longer has HL2 as installed, and insists that I must install it again to play it through STEAM. How do I fix this?

We just got Half-Life 2, and it's really cool. We've been playing a while, and decided to see what some cheats could do. Where I look I can only find that I should either push the "~" key, or edit the short cut on the desktop and then use the "~" key in the game to bring up a console and enter in the cheats. Neither have worked, the "~" doesn't bring up a console of any type. I am running the game through "STEAM," and I was wondering if anyone could help me with the cheats .

Hey thanks, I'll be able to learn most of what I need to know from these

You just have to take some classes, think about it, and decide. It's kind of fun.

Through experimentation (and some help from this site months ago) I can write programs from formulas to save time, and using the book I got a pixal to move around the screen using the arrows using the getkey function. I seem to have gotten as far as I can by myself. 1) Can you write a program that factors a trinomial (or other polonomials). I have no idea how this program could work. Or can you that can f.o.i.l. for you? 2) Games. The pixel that I could move around with the arrow keys didn't work very well. After a while I'd get the error message "memory." I ran out of memory to move around one pixel? How do games work so that they do not use up too much memory? 3) Are there any basics that I might be missing that would make it easier?

I'd have to disagree, libertarians are not anarchists. This I can agree with. Or rather the extreme religious right? I like this idea. Or rather the far left?

There is a morbid enjoyment in the feeling like you know something that a lot of people don't realize, being different. You're not really trading happiness for truth, but rather one kind of happiness for another.

Most people were shaky at first, in a few weeks it'll be so easy it'll be boring

Is that what he's saying?

From an economical point of view, the classical struggle between capitalism and socialism? On one side those who think like Adam Smith, who believe if everyone did what was best for themselves then the society as a whole would receive the most benefit. The "invisible hand" theory, that the economy will take of itself if everyone tries to take care of themselves. On the other side those like Karl Marx point out the inevitable "screwing over" (paraphrasing) of the "proletariat" (the lower class). And we saw this in 1870-1900's in the US. Big business=bad, but dose that mean socialism=good, or a little socialism=good? ---------- A strong case by Milton Friedman for the first side (capitalism) says that corporations have no social responsibility. He has some good points, corporations aren't people, so they don't have responsibilities like people do. But the most intriguing point, that a corporation that spends on helping the community is actually taxing the stock holders. Here's a rhetorical: -Corporation Executive -Corporation - Makes 1 million dollars -Stock Holders - Each gets 1% of profits a year Each stock holder (if the executive keeps all profit) will get 1% of a million dollars or $10,000. But if the executive spends $100,000 on the community (charitable donations, ect) then the profit will only be $900,000, and each stock holder will only get $9,000. In effect the corporation executive is taxing each stock holder $1,000 and spending it how he wishes on the community. First of all should an executive be able to spend money promised to stock holders, and second does this give a lot of power to a corporation and it's executive? In reality they are like miniature governments taxing and spending and the stoke holders are the citizens. This is sometimes known as the "Stock Holder Theory." ---------- Robert Hay and Edmund Gray could call Milton Friedman's philosophy a "Phase I" philosophy of business, this is where the only obligation the corporation has is to maximize it's profits. They also wrote, however, about a "Phase II" philosophy, or a "Stake Holder Theory" where not only the stockholders looked out for (as in Phase I) but also the "stake holders," the customers, employees, suppliers, creditors, and most importantdifference, the community. The "stake holders" are all the people that the corporation should be looking out for. This "Phase II" makes more sense, to me, than "Phase I." They also wrote about "Phase III," but they also recognized it's problems. This is where the corporations main goals are social goals. Not only does this bring a lot of government power into the picture, but can hurt businesses. ---------- As for a general society view, John Stewart Mill said that the individual good was a societal good. Personally I'd mix this with so Thomas Hobbes and even some stoic ideas. We need to do what we can for ourselves, and should do what we can for others because this is all we really can do. And in the end on a grander scale we need a government to make sure we don't hurt each other.

Truly.

It's not so much slander as any criticism. The freedom of the press is severely hindered, and with it all things that depend on the press such as protest.

Me and Cap joined around the same time, in January 2004. It's amazing what this site has become, I wish I could come more often.

We could solve a lot of problems if everyone knew what science was. For example ID/evolution/Big Bang conflicts wouldn't be so bad if we could explain the difference between the layman term "theory" (hunch or guess) and the scientific definition "theory" (idea support by fact, ect).