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I hear a lot of people comare taxing to theft. In a sense, I suppose it's similar. However, I'm not sure if I know of a better way of providing, for instance, national security, than by taxing everybody and using it to fund a national military. Privatization comes to mind, but I'm not sure how...

Sure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque Good guess, though! Thanks for playing, arildno!

Well, I'm no Civ-E, but... If it were me in your situation, I would stick to classes that teach methods rather than specific content, unless I had a special interest in the content itself. Methods are generally applicable across content, whereas content may not teach methods applicable to...

arildno: "Yawn. If you were PHYSICALLY starving (and that is an OBJECTIVE, trans-historical condition!), you would rid yourself with such notions in the manner of..seconds. You wouldn't care about "rights", but about food. " Alright, class, what logical fallacy is this?

You can check the BLS OOH for all sorts of projection figures, for America at least. In summary, engineering and science is doing pretty good on the whole, but some areas are doing better than others. Go check it out. It should be required reading for people applying to college.

I don't like studying. I'm suing for emotional distress and lost wages.

Personally, I thought it was funny too. In Australia, do they train store owners to run away from robbers? I thought it was common here in America, anyway, to just comply with robbers. Surely you're safer that way.

Generally speaking, you try to guess the behavior of the trend from the source. Common choices include exponentials, logarithms, polynomials, and rationals. Trig functions, too. Just play around. Unless you have some clue as to what the function should look like, you can come up with functions...

It's actually a blessing and a curse to be surrounded by people who are, for the most part, dumb, dumb, dumb.

That was great. He probably could have been arrested, but that's because people are dumb and people make the laws. P.S. The Geico gecko doesn't speak with an Australian accent? What? You just blew my ****ing mind, dude.

It's probably a necessary evil. On the one hand, I would say that we're all indoctrinated. On the other, I would say nobody is. Think hard about those two statements and how they can be reconciled, and I'll elaborate as necessary.

Well, I agree that things like biology and pscyhology can address certain questions of human behavior, but I feel that the way in which it addresses these questions is fundamentally different to the way philosophy does. I feel that the two are concerned with primarily different, though related...

I disagree that philosophy cannot bring knowledge. It cannot lead to certain kinds of knowledge, perhaps, but that is certainly not all the knowledge there is. Science and mathematics are not infinite in their capacity to answer all questions about human life. Where they leave off, philosophy...

I took Griffiths E&M and QM at the same time, and it was alright. I mean, neither class was easy, but both were doable.