I for one follow that Hammurabi Codes, it gets a little hairy sometimes, like when I punched a pregnant woman who then miscarried and my daughter was put to death, but overall it's a good system (my daughter was getting a bit annoying anyway).
The article ends by saying the horses seemed to enjoy it greatly. I wonder if that's true or if they were beaten until they jumped and learned that way.
Hard to say, I had a border collie that loved jumping off the river dike wall, probably 20 feet into the river below. He'd jump swim to the shore, run up the hill and jump again. Throw a ball into the mix and he'd do it all day long.
I agree, what's the point of this? Is it supposed to be a magic trick or a camera trick? The "making of" video seems to imply that a whole bunch of lighting, camera, and technology equipment went into this.
The percent differences look pronounced in the graph but if you look at the numbers only it seems trivial. I mean really, what's the difference between 12.6 years of education and 12.7? An extra 36 days of official education separates an idiot from a genius?
I'm a proud barefooter. In college I don't think I wore shoes more than 24 hours total in 4 years. I've even spent weekends in New York City with no shoes. People think it's dangerous but when you get used to it, your feet develop a heightened feeling and you learn to use them sort of like your hands. You develop a sixth sense about where you walk and sort of glide-step rather than stomp about. I've never had any puncture wounds and have even stepped on broken glass before but only suffered minor scrapes, nothing more than what one gets on your hands in day to day activity.
I doubt they were models since they hired back when it wasn't a big deal to reject people based on physical appearance. Plus air travel was a luxury and glamorous. People got dressed up to fly and it was treated like one big cocktail party.
There's one of these in my house (I didn't build it)It's basically a sub basement. Since it's there, I stock it with stuff. Basically enough supplies for the family to last a month. I doubt it would survive a direct bombing of my house but I don't live in a city so I can't see the strategic advantage of bombing my house. I can say it is mentally nice knowing it's available. Imagine tomorrow the Government says "OMG H1N1 has mutated and now has an 80% kill rate! Everyone must stay indoors for 1 month to prevent spreading." Everyone is panicking, I'm sipping beer saying, "Right, I got that covered."
Yeah, jeez, seems like a lot of haters here but one can understand why people are jealous. It's not surprising though, from a young age, these people are told they can do no wrong, they are preyed upon my others, any mistakes they make are often washed away and they are allowed to do whatever they want. Later, they are given millions of dollars and somehow we denigrate them because they haven't invested wisely in T-Bills, and municipal bonds?!?
I also think major league sports should all have minor leagues. College football and basketball is relaly the only venue atheletes have for getting to the pros, let's not be surprised that some aren't really college material. What other choice do you have if you want to become a pro basketball player?
Hard to say, I had a border collie that loved jumping off the river dike wall, probably 20 feet into the river below. He'd jump swim to the shore, run up the hill and jump again. Throw a ball into the mix and he'd do it all day long.
Seriously though, I wish I cared enough to be that productive.
"Heaven, Mr. Valentine? Whatever gave you the idea that you were in Heaven? This is the other place!!"
I know it's hard to imagine nowadays.
I also think major league sports should all have minor leagues. College football and basketball is relaly the only venue atheletes have for getting to the pros, let's not be surprised that some aren't really college material. What other choice do you have if you want to become a pro basketball player?