Who's "we"?
Take a peek outside the egocentrism.
Memory Card Technology cares.
lol

I had always figured, "Sure, I suppose I'll have kids some day." My wife didn't really dig the idea of kids, so I figured, "Sure, we'll be fine just enjoying ourselves for the rest of our days," because we always loved the idea of seeing the world and kids would just get in the way, we thought.

After returning from our first disappointingly anticlimactic trip to Europe, I started feeling, "Wow, is that all there is to life? There has to be more." Generally I started looking forward to my deathbed and knowing I'd look back regretting that I never experienced fatherhood. The seed was planted a month later.

My second son is on the way and due 7 weeks from today, and my first son is now 20 months old. It's just not possible to completely explain to someone else how incredible and fulfilling it is, but it has already been the experience of a lifetime, and I wish I'd gotten started when I was younger. Now I've decided I'm too close to 40 to have any more, otherwise I'd have shot for a quad of small fries.

Parenthood isn't for everyone, so I don't wish it upon anyone, especially not self-centered/egocentric people who would just bring more undesirable dipshits into the world.

So climate change isn't a scientific fact, it's human egocentrism? That sounds like a conclusion that started from a concept with a kernel of truth, and was made ridiculous by taking it to it's logical extension.

I agree. Crowds gather for a reason.
>> ^legacy0100:

"I didn't do anything"? What egocentric bullshit. Why are you getting closer to the action where cops are telling you to move away? Why on earth would you walk with the rioters when the police are actively telling you to disperse?

"I didn't do anything"? What egocentric bullshit. Why are you getting closer to the action where cops are telling you to move away? Why on earth would you walk with the rioters when the police are actively telling you to disperse?

This naive 백소년's logic of the role of his bystander-ness is flawed. Most likely some individuals were involved in illegal activities to have triggered the cops to act at first. So cops try to look for these individuals, but the individual disappears into the crowd. Police tries to search for the individual.

Now this is the important part. It's most likely that the crowd of bystanders got in the way of the cops, saying they didn't have anything to do with the illegal activity, so they shouldn't have to do anything or comply to cop's requests.

There are two things the bystanders are doing wrong:

1. Actively getting in the way of the cop's official duty.
2. Failure to disassociate themselves from the illegal activity.

See, what the bystanders forget is that you can't just stand there and let shit happen. It's common knowledge that if you see someone murdering a person or let your friend drink and drive, and didn't do anything to stop them, you are charged for contempt as well. When you are a bystander, it doesn't mean that you are responsible for everyone else's action. But at least when someone acts in a way you disagree with, you are obliged to ACTIVELY part yourself from that activity. Point the person out, or at least move away from the individual to disassociate yourself.

This is not so much to ask. Remind yourselves what you would have to do when you have witnessed a murder scene or saw your drunk friend with the car keys. In these situations, if you aren't able to prevent the illegal activity yourself, you are obligated to report to the police right away. In a crowded setting you often don't know who have committed the crime or let alone know if there is a crime being committed. So you haven't witnessed it first hand, but you are still obliged to disassociate yourself from the crime scene. So what's so hard about just walking away from group of people who have reportedly been doing illegal things?

Saying you are innocent at a crime scene and then actively walking toward the cops who are telling you to clear the area does not make you innocent. Because now you are purposely getting in the way of cops official business. When they tell you to move away, MOVE AWAY. Why are you disregarding the cops request? Why the FUCK are you approaching a group of cops who has their weapons drawn out? And notice how the film doesn't show what illegal activity was going on that triggered the cop's response, and only show the parts where cops are crackin' heads.

Know your civic duties before claiming you are being violated of your rights. Naive, biased, hotheaded youth of America.

... Sir Walter Scott.

Hahaha.

You don't like poetry?

I love poetry. I just thought that was Willard Scott. I was confused... You think I'm acting like this because I'm egocentric?

I know you're egocentric. It's your defining characteristic.

You guys ready? We better get going if we're going to stay ahead of the weather.

Read from the top. YOU are the only person here who is encouraging a fight. Admit it. The only reason you posted that comment was to pick a fight with me.

You don't know me. I don't pick fights. I had no idea such a stupid debate even existed on the internet. The point made in this video is interesting in spite of how it usually seems to go down out there in the rest of the net. Vi Hart's videos are usually about cool facts that can be derived from math, often ones that seem counterintuitive. Your comparison of Vi Hart to QM is vacuous.>> ^VoodooV:

So enlighten me, o' wise ones. What is the point of this other than troll-bait and/or ego masturbation?
This topic is the intellectual equivalent of QM coming in here and making ad-homs about "His Earness" or waxing egocentric about why he is virtuous and true and the rest of us are all immoral entitlement whores.
You saw how quickly messenger called into question the entire sift's intelligence over Entropy's post.
This sort of thing does not lend itself well to civil discourse. Admit it, the only purpose of a topic such as this is to entice someone to come in here and to argue that .999... is not 1 so you can have a grand ole time stroking your ego and patting yourself on the back over how smart you are and how the other person is dumb.

>> ^VoodooV:

LOL!!! you're comparing this topic to the actual work that engineers and physicists do? That is hilarious. Yes, I'm sure the engineering world has much to thank the awesome ability of arguing on a message board over what .999... is equal to.
This has nothing to do with calculus. This has nothing to do with actual practical work. This has nothing to do with solving actual problems. This is about going onto a internet message board and browbeating others which has already happened as I predicted.
Before you start insulting the education of someone else, make sure YOU'RE not making any mistakes of YOUR own, eh?
Sorry I can't stay and "debate" with you on this truly fascinating topic. I have to go to my job tomorrow and do REAL work and solve ACTUAL problems. Sure it's not as grand and as thought-provoking as comparing .999... to 1, nor do I get to beat up on some hapless internet newb who happens to take the troll-bait. But hey, we have to get our satisfaction somehow.
>> ^bcglorf:
>> ^VoodooV:
So enlighten me, o' wise ones. What is the point of this other than troll-bait and/or ego masturbation?
This topic is the intellectual equivalent of QM coming in here and making ad-homs about "His Earness" or waxing egocentric about why he is virtuous and true and the rest of us are all immoral entitlement whores.
You saw how quickly messenger called into question the entire sift's intelligence over Entropy's post.
This sort of thing does not lend itself well to civil discourse. Admit it, the only purpose of a topic such as this is to entice someone to come in here and to argue that .999... is not 1 so you can have a grand ole time stroking your ego and patting yourself on the back over how smart you are and how the other person is dumb.

This simple concept is one of the fundamental principles of calculus. Without it you don't have engineering, physics, or a million other things known as the modern world. It's not some obscure irrelevant math trivia only used by math geeks. It is a fundamental first year mathematics principle used by every scientist, engineer, and pharmacist in the work they do every day to make all the things you take for granted.
But yeah, just because your not educated enough to appreciate that you should rag all over it and insist it's unimportant. We should burn all the books you don't care for too, right?



Get over yourself. The video isn't supposed to start any kind of fight or internet debate. It's a simply instructive video about basic math.

If you want to be upset with anyone for starting an internet fight over something you consider unimportant blame the first poster in the thread that tried to turn it that way...

Oh, I see, it was you...

LOL!!! you're comparing this topic to the actual work that engineers and physicists do? That is hilarious. Yes, I'm sure the engineering world has much to thank the awesome ability of arguing on a message board over what .999... is equal to.

This has nothing to do with calculus. This has nothing to do with actual practical work. This has nothing to do with solving actual problems. This is about going onto a internet message board and browbeating others which has already happened as I predicted.

Before you start insulting the education of someone else, make sure YOU'RE not making any mistakes of YOUR own, eh?

Sorry I can't stay and "debate" with you on this truly fascinating topic. I have to go to my job tomorrow and do REAL work and solve ACTUAL problems. Sure it's not as grand and as thought-provoking as comparing .999... to 1, nor do I get to beat up on some hapless internet newb who happens to take the troll-bait. But hey, we have to get our satisfaction somehow.

>> ^bcglorf:

>> ^VoodooV:
So enlighten me, o' wise ones. What is the point of this other than troll-bait and/or ego masturbation?
This topic is the intellectual equivalent of QM coming in here and making ad-homs about "His Earness" or waxing egocentric about why he is virtuous and true and the rest of us are all immoral entitlement whores.
You saw how quickly messenger called into question the entire sift's intelligence over Entropy's post.
This sort of thing does not lend itself well to civil discourse. Admit it, the only purpose of a topic such as this is to entice someone to come in here and to argue that .999... is not 1 so you can have a grand ole time stroking your ego and patting yourself on the back over how smart you are and how the other person is dumb.

This simple concept is one of the fundamental principles of calculus. Without it you don't have engineering, physics, or a million other things known as the modern world. It's not some obscure irrelevant math trivia only used by math geeks. It is a fundamental first year mathematics principle used by every scientist, engineer, and pharmacist in the work they do every day to make all the things you take for granted.
But yeah, just because your not educated enough to appreciate that you should rag all over it and insist it's unimportant. We should burn all the books you don't care for too, right?

>> ^VoodooV:

So enlighten me, o' wise ones. What is the point of this other than troll-bait and/or ego masturbation?
This topic is the intellectual equivalent of QM coming in here and making ad-homs about "His Earness" or waxing egocentric about why he is virtuous and true and the rest of us are all immoral entitlement whores.
You saw how quickly messenger called into question the entire sift's intelligence over Entropy's post.
This sort of thing does not lend itself well to civil discourse. Admit it, the only purpose of a topic such as this is to entice someone to come in here and to argue that .999... is not 1 so you can have a grand ole time stroking your ego and patting yourself on the back over how smart you are and how the other person is dumb.


This simple concept is one of the fundamental principles of calculus. Without it you don't have engineering, physics, or a million other things known as the modern world. It's not some obscure irrelevant math trivia only used by math geeks. It is a fundamental first year mathematics principle used by every scientist, engineer, and pharmacist in the work they do every day to make all the things you take for granted.

But yeah, just because your not educated enough to appreciate that you should rag all over it and insist it's unimportant. We should burn all the books you don't care for too, right?

Education. It's good.
>> ^VoodooV:

So enlighten me, o' wise ones. What is the point of this other than troll-bait and/or ego masturbation?
This topic is the intellectual equivalent of QM coming in here and making ad-homs about "His Earness" or waxing egocentric about why he is virtuous and true and the rest of us are all immoral entitlement whores.
You saw how quickly messenger called into question the entire sift's intelligence over Entropy's post.
This sort of thing does not lend itself well to civil discourse. Admit it, the only purpose of a topic such as this is to entice someone to come in here and to argue that .999... is not 1 so you can have a grand ole time stroking your ego and patting yourself on the back over how smart you are and how the other person is dumb.

So enlighten me, o' wise ones. What is the point of this other than troll-bait and/or ego masturbation?

This topic is the intellectual equivalent of QM coming in here and making ad-homs about "His Earness" or waxing egocentric about why he is virtuous and true and the rest of us are all immoral entitlement whores.

You saw how quickly messenger called into question the entire sift's intelligence over Entropy's post.

This sort of thing does not lend itself well to civil discourse. Admit it, the only purpose of a topic such as this is to entice someone to come in here and to argue that .999... is not 1 so you can have a grand ole time stroking your ego and patting yourself on the back over how smart you are and how the other person is dumb.

If the essential goal of free markets is to conquer competition to ensure your own survivability & market dominance then how come Friedman also acknowledges at the end of this video that monopolies are a negative influence?, if the market REALLY worked in the manner in which he claims then wouldn't these monopolies be nothing but 'The Best Companies?'.

This viewpoint of only caring about markets because supposedly markets are the best option to help individuals forgets the key problem that 'people create markets' & people are greedy (basically the same problem as communism) 'power corrupts', and this ideology has zero respect or tolerance for the people it claims to be helping while also making them support big business unquestioningly being made into pawns of ITS GAME. To believe that the leaders of these companies main concern is to serve the interests of the individual is nothing short of nonsensical and taps into an egocentric self-focused Gordon Gekko like system while group worth is tossed aside in favour of profit at any cost.

egocentric christians telling everyone that they KNOW the truth, that god speaks directly to them, they know his will and direction of progress or lack thereof and yet blame atheists who never claim such things that we are deluded?, what the!.

According to the Child Development Institute, children go through what's known as an intuitive phase (part of the broader preoperational phase) from around ages 4-7.

Here is a description of that phase from the Institute website, copied word for word:

Speech becomes more social, less egocentric. The child has an intuitive grasp of logical concepts in some areas. However, there is still a tendency to focus attention on one aspect of an object while ignoring others. Concepts formed are crude and irreversible. Easy to believe in magical increase, decrease, disappearance. Reality not firm. Perceptions dominate judgment.In moral-ethical realm, the child is not able to show principles underlying best behavior. Rules of a game not develop, only uses simple do’s and don’ts imposed by authority.

Assuming these are Israeli's watching Palestinians getting blown up while they entertain themselves with beverages, while using the argument they started it as their justification, one can only assume they failed to develop intellectually past the age of around 7.