True, but still, if they don't exhibit the signs of fear, how is that any different from not being afraid? And I'm not saying these people are fearless, just that they're not scared of that particular animal.
There is a prolonged hospital stay along with it, and while I don't know the rates in Sydney, judging by what others have said, they must be pretty damn high.
We know it has a taste. Many animals can taste water - dogs, for example. We humans can't taste it, however (pure h2o, that is). Most of what we taste comes from chemicals, impurities and bacteria in the water.
Some people wouldn't run. Some would fight it. Of course, they would fear something else.
Everyone has a trigger. Everyone has something that they would run screaming from. (Likewise, everyone has something they'd fight for, but that's another discussion.) I, for instance, am afraid of bees and ladders. Not precisely a phobia, just a "I don't like them, but I can still stand to climb a ladder/be near bees if necessary". Everyone is like this. Most people have one thing they wouldn't touch with a 29 1/2 foot pole, but everyone has something that just creeps them out.
That kid had it coming, but there were other ways to handle that. There was a camera. That kid could have been expelled (or at least banned from the buses - it happened to me once (for another reason)).
This is why parents need to start spanking their kids again. I mean, my mom broke 4 wooden spoons and bent one metal one over my backside as a kid, and now I wouldn't hurt a fly. Those kids (the attackers) probably come from a family where they get their way at all times, if they scream loud enough, and have never had a hand raised against them their entire lives. It's really pathetic to see kids raised like that.
Ok, no offense, but the parts about slavery I can understand, because look at the historical context - pre-Roman to post-Roman period. Slavery was not just a fact of life, it was a necessity. They didn't have complex machinery to do the work in fields, for instance. To try to ban slavery was like trying to turn the entire world upside down and expect it to keep functioning. Besides, most of the regs about it were quite just. Not to say I condone it, of course. Just that I understand it. And yes, the rest of it just freaks me out. I've always said: The Bible (particularly the Old Testament, as Judaism and Islam are also based on it) has caused more pain, bloodshed, and persecution than any other idea in history. Of course, I also believe that the Bible is one of the biggest propaganda efforts in recorded history. It was written first, by, as has been said, over 40 authors. Then, in the middle ages, it was edited, pruned, translated, and debated on by the clergy of one of the (then) most corrupt institutions in history, while they tried to complete their political stranglehold on Europe. After that, it was hand copied and hand translated for hundreds of years, allowing gods-only-know how many errors to creep in. If that's not a propaganda effort, I don't know what is. We already do. Just not as much. :D
The harm occurs when the government starts releasing information that the people can't do a thing about. For instance, in Vietnam, the US military won every single battle. Not once did the north Vietnamese kill more than they lost. HHowever, because the news media plastered the deaths of every single soldier all over the news, to the general public, who is completely unprepared to deal with death, the people decided that they no longer wanted any part in a "losing" war, even though we were winning. Hell, if that had happened in WWII, Germany would now rule Europe, and probably more. Basically, the American public is unprepared to deal with certain governmental issues, like war. They don't need to know about every single death right when it happens. I mean, full disclosure after the war ends is just fine. Then they have a right to know.
Have any of you watched the remake of "the time machine"? In it, basically, a few decades after the present day, nuclear explosions meant to tunnel out a lunar habitat screw up the orbit and the moon breaks up and falls down on Earth. That, IMO, is going too far. Doing something that would seem like a good idea, but with horrible, unintended side affects. Same with genetic engineering. If we're not careful with it, yes, we may one day live in a perfect society with no genetic abnormalities, but then we'll also lose all diversity in the species, and lose whatever evolutionary advantage we once had. So basically, progress, in general, is a good thing, but with any new technology, all possible consequences must be carefully analyzed, or we will go too far.
Is this a joke? Seriously, with a powerful enough telescope, I believe you can actually SEE the module they left behind. If that's not proof, I don't know what is. besides, what about the people who saw the Apollo 11 launch, firsthand. How would the space program justify bribing every news network in America to go along with it? No, no, there are too many things wrong with that conspiracy theory for it to be valid.
We have the news media to blame for that - when they're not blowing celebrities way out of proportion, they're overreacting to every minor government scandal that happens. All the news stations care about is ratings. They no longer care about simply telling is what happens - now they have to make us scared for our lives and freedoms every time a senator sleeps with the wrong woman or some such.
Nah. They're all fake. Probably exaggerated legends from the early days of mankind - for instance, someone exploring the shores of the Atlantic ocean in the stone age sees a whale. he has no clue what it is, therefore, it is a "sea monster", and he passes on the story to his descendants, who modify it and pass it on again for thousands of years, and thus the story spreads.
Cleopatra actually got by more on verbal charm and power than looks, according to facial reconstructions. But yea, I would be interested in seeing the origins of certain myths, myself.
To view, I would love to see the time around 1 AD. Just to settle the arguments once and for all. Alternatively, I would like to see the dawn of the universe.
TJ Maxx paid $5.15 an hour - the factories paid over 10. Plus the factory jobs helped keep my weight in check. And they had less customer interactions, which I hate.
The one free program I have is Vegas 6, from my friend. I'm just not gonna ask where he got it. :D ;)
I've worked in the past, but as of now, I am an unemployed 21 year old, bumming college off my family :D. Before, I worked in 2 factory assembler jobs (both over $10 an hour), and one really shitty TJ Maxx job. I've also done volunteer work in my Archaeology professor's lab, up at college, and I'm hoping to continue to do so, and to parlay that experience into a career once I get my degree.
The longest I've ever been at the same school was 7 years, around middle school. We just kept moving around so much, and I have such trouble learning names and faces, that I always felt like a new kid. But that's ok, since I like to be alone anyways. Heh, for a while, the kids in high school thought I was a psychopath (because of some... questionable suspensions in freshman year that got exaggerated) and steered clear of me even into my senior year. As for whether it was good or not - well, I enjoyed not being weighed down by unnecessary attachments, seeing as I had no car or money, and I'm sure my folks appreciated the low cell phone bill, so for me, I guess it was good.
Well, obviously people aren't too upset, otherwise we'd be seeing full-scale rebellion. But aside from that, I think, sometimes, the government actually has the responsibility to keep things from us. For instance, what good will it do if every single American civilian knows the total number of dead in Iraq? What can they do about it? The military officers, the ones who have been trained to deal with this war, know what they're doing. Other things, however, should be made more open - financial records, for instance. I don't know... I mean, regarding overreactions, that's more a fault of media exaggeration than actual government (although, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to study ducks under sprinklers isn't exactly a sound governmental move...). And there I go, starting to ramble again... Sorry.
